{"id":4554,"date":"2021-10-27T23:43:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T04:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=4554"},"modified":"2021-10-29T04:32:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T09:32:59","slug":"steve-wilkos-show-kicks-polygraph-operator-dan-ribacoff-off-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2021\/10\/27\/steve-wilkos-show-kicks-polygraph-operator-dan-ribacoff-off-team\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Steve Wilkos Show<\/i> Kicks Polygraph Operator Dan Ribacoff Off Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>Celebrity polygraph operator Daniel D. Ribacoff, who has been with the NBCUniversal tabloid television talk program, <em>The Steve Wilkos Show<\/em>, since 2009, is evidently no longer on the &#8220;team.&#8221; Until recently, Ribacoff was one of four people included on the show&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210711171915\/https:\/\/stevewilkos.com\/team\/\">&#8220;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20211006094254\/https:\/\/stevewilkos.com\/team\/\">Team&#8221; webpage<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/steve-wilkos-team-2021-10-06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"670\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/steve-wilkos-team-2021-10-06.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/steve-wilkos-team-2021-10-06.jpg 670w, https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/steve-wilkos-team-2021-10-06-279x300.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>Steve Wilkos Show<\/em> Team, 6 October 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>But as of today, 28 October 2021, Ribacoff appears to be <a href=\"https:\/\/stevewilkos.com\/team\/\">off the team<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/steve-wilkos-team-2021-10-28.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"669\" height=\"723\" src=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/steve-wilkos-team-2021-10-28.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/steve-wilkos-team-2021-10-28.jpg 669w, https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/steve-wilkos-team-2021-10-28-278x300.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>Steve Wilkos Show<\/em> Team, 28 October 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In December 2019, Ribacoff falsely accused innocent <em>Steve Wilkos Show<\/em> guest Anca Pennington of burning her infant daughter with cigarettes, <a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/25\/polygraph-test-drives-innocent-steve-wilkos-show-guest-to-attempted-suicide\/\">leading to her attempted suicide<\/a>. That didn&#8217;t get him kicked off the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In lawsuits filed in 2019 and 2020, Ribacoff was credibly accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2020\/12\/22\/tv-polygraph-operator-dan-ribacoffs-international-investigative-group-allegedly-bilked-client\/\">bilking a client<\/a> of his private investigative firm out of millions of dollars. That didn&#8217;t get him kicked off the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In May 2021, Jesse Wayne Perkins, who passed a lie detector test on the <em>Steve Wilkos Show<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2021\/08\/24\/steve-wilkos-show-guest-who-passed-polygraph-later-confessed-to-murdering-15-month-old\/\">was sentenced to life imprisonment<\/a> for the murder of a 15-month-old girl. The <em>Steve Wilkos Show<\/em> deleted video of that episode from its YouTube channel (<a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/video\/steve-wilkos-2018-11-14-excerpt.mp4\">we have a copy<\/a>), but that didn&#8217;t get Ribacoff kicked off the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 9 October 2021, AntiPolygraph.org published <a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2021\/10\/08\/celebrity-polygraph-operator-dan-ribacoff-sent-racist-text-messages\/\">racist text messages<\/a> Ribacoff sent to an employee of his private investigative company. This appears to be what got him kicked off the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigative journalist and California-based licensed private investigator <a href=\"https:\/\/dirtycopsandpis.com\/about-2\/\">Jeffrey Augustine<\/a> reports on Ribacoff&#8217;s racist text messages and their implications for a racial discrimination case against the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority Police Department in an article titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/dirtycopsandpis.com\/racist-texts-allegedly-sent-by-dan-ribacoff-polygraph-expert-at-steve-wilkos-show-iigpi-appear-to-support-discrimination-accusations-against-ny-mta\/\">&#8220;Racist Texts Allegedly Sent by Dan Ribacoff, Polygraph Expert at Steve Wilkos Show, IIGPI, Appear to Support Discrimination Accusations Against NY MTA.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Correction:<\/strong> The original version of this article stated that Daniel Ribacoff had been with the<em> Steve Wilkos Show<\/em> since its 2007 debut. This is not correct. According to Ribacoff&#8217;s now deleted <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210711201838\/https:\/\/stevewilkos.com\/team\/daniel-ribacoff\/\">profile<\/a> on the <em>Steve Wilkos Show<\/em> website, he &#8220;has been conducting lie detector tests for The Steve Wilkos Show since 2009.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrity polygraph operator Daniel D. Ribacoff, who has been with the NBCUniversal tabloid television talk program, The Steve Wilkos Show, since 2009, is evidently no longer on the &#8220;team.&#8221; Until recently, Ribacoff was one of four people included on the show&#8217;s &#8220;Team&#8221; webpage: But as of today, 28 October 2021, Ribacoff appears to be off &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[236,573,347,235],"class_list":{"0":"post-4554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-dan-ribacoff","8":"tag-nbcuniversal","9":"tag-racial-bias","10":"tag-steve-wilkos","11":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4554"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4565,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions\/4565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}