Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at ProPublica. My reporting has resulted in widespread reforms, criminal convictions, congressional hearings and new legislation.
In the past, I have written about how the rich avoid taxes, questionable stock trades by top executives, lobbying campaigns to block safety standards, conflicts of interest within government and self-dealing by political consultants. I broke stories on Sen. Richard Burr selling stock before the coronavirus market crash, helping lead to a wave of scrutiny of congressional stock trading.
In 2020, along with two colleagues, I won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for a series about avoidable deaths in the Navy and Marine Corps, and the failure of top commanders to heed warnings that could have saved lives.
Before joining ProPublica, I was at the Los Angeles Times, where my work exposed inmate abuse, cronyism, secret cop cliques and wrongful jailings at the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department. I obtained a cache of confidential personnel records that showed the agency knowingly hired dozens of cops with histories of serious misconduct. The stories helped lead to sweeping reforms at the nation’s largest jail system, criminal convictions of sheriff’s deputies and the resignation of the sheriff.