Daniel Ribacoff (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Gillette)

We previously covered Scientology's hired NYC private investigator Dan Ribacoff and his company International Investigative Group (IIGPI). In that story we showed a text message in which Ribacoff's PI Yanti "Mike" Greene sent a text message to another IIGPI PI which stated "Word is they (the Church of Scientology) want to kill Leah Remini:

Dan Ribacoff, Mike Greene, and other PI's from IIGPI are defendants in three related lawsuits. Ribacoff is accused of swindling a client out of millions of dollars through a fraudulent billing scheme. Yanti Mike Greene is accused of making contact with, and then sexually assaulting, a woman he was supposed to be covertly surveilling for Ribacoff's firm.

This text message Mike Greene sent lead us to look into Scientology's PI Dan Ribacoff. We quickly learned that Ribacoff was the "celebrity polygrapher" for NBCUniversal's The Steve Wilkos Show.  The format of the Steve Wilkos show is to have guests come on stage and accuse their spouses of marital infidelity and/or spousal abuse; accuse family members of child molestation or physically injuring children; and present other extremely serious allegations. Many of the people who are appear on the Steve Wilkos Show are Black.

The accused family member makes denials and protestations of innocence on camera and is then subjected to a series of polygraphs by Dan Ribacoff. Steve Wilkos will read Ribacoff's polygraph results to the accused and humiliate and damn them if Ribacoff determined they were lying. Below is just one example of how just how condescending and hostile Dan Ribacoff and Steve Wilkos acts towards a Black man whose whose girlfriend accused him of cheating on her:

Even as Dan Ribacoff was working as the crusading moralist with a polygraph on the Steve Wilkos Show, he was sending racist text messages to one of his PI's. We exposed the story of Ribacoff's racist text messages on our companion blog Dirty Cops and PI's.

Below is an example of one of Ribacoff's text messages. The message was authenticated by Jonathon Carter's attorney Peter Crusco. In this text message allegedly sent by Dan Ribacoff on February 7, 2018 at 8:26 PM EST is an image containing the following headline: "When you've got $9.34 left in your bank account and you have to start practicing being homeless." Below the headline is an image of a black male adult sitting inside a cardboard box.

In this text message allegedly sent by Dan Ribacoff on February 7, 2018 at 8:26 PM EST is an image containing the following headline:

DAN RIBACOFF'S RACIST TEXT MESSAGES EXPOSED: THE AFTERMATH 

According to an exclusive online article published in the NY Daily News, Jonathan Kyle Carter, 29, of Uniondale, NY, a police officer with the NYPD filed a complaint filed with United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), claiming that the MTA (Metropolitan Transit Authority) uses polygraph tests to "suppress the hiring of African American (Black) police officer candidates." Carter's EEOC complaint contained Ribacoff's racist text messages.

After the online exclusive was published by the Daily News, the MTA canceled all remaining polygraph examinations for new applicants, scheduled to be given by Dan Ribacoff's company InDepth Polygraphs through early 2022, when his contract with the agency expires.

We reached out three times to NBCUniversal for a comment on Ribacoff's racist text messages. NBCUniversal has not responded to our request for comment. However, as the antipolygraph.com website revealed, Dan Ribacoff's name and photo were removed the Steve Wilkos "team members" website and he was made a nonperson.

The Steve Wilkos Show is controversial. Here is an excerpt from an episode the Steve Wilkos Show in which he attacks a female drug addict as a baby-killer, a whore, and a pig. He then attacks her boyfriend for "sleeping with a crack whore."

Steve Wilkos, a former Chicago police officer who served in the US Marine Corps, began his television career as a security person on the Maury Povich Show. After guest-hosting for Povich, NBCUniversal gave Wilkos his own show in 2007. Dan Ribacoff came aboard the Wilkos show in 2010 as the show's polygrapher.

The Steve Wilkos Show has centered around Dan Ribacoff's polygraphs and Wilkos often volcanic temper and abusive behavior towards. This is what NBCUniversal produces and syndicates and yet is not willing to comment on when asked.