On top of what @triptrapper@lemmy.world says, he also had an affair with a female colleague prior to the show and Primetime Live and when it came out got her fired and blackballed from local media so she had to move.

Post the Primetime "To Catch a Predator" he has done several funding campaigns to relaunch his show in new media and repeatedly did not give those funding him what they promised as perks. He skipped out on cheques and skipped paying rent on the home he got. He allegedly bribed one of the Perverted Justice volunteered to take down a 'big fish' and refused to pay when they found out he wasn't who they thought he was. He once used his position to try and force a local sheriff to help out his show by using proof they knew wouldn't stick and if he didn't that he could "bring his show to find out why he was defending predators.". One of the cases where they were trying one of the predators that they had caught on the show was headed up by technology media personality Leo Laporte, and he said on a podcast he made that they had no choice to let the guy go and actually had to consider the fact that Chris Hansen would be facing a potential lawsuit from the 'predator'.