Thomas Pham LeGro, an award-winning journalist with The Washington Publish, was charged Friday with possession of kid pornography, in accordance with a press launch from the U.S. Division of Justice.
The 48-year-old journalist was the topic of an FBI investigation, which led to the execution of a search warrant at his house on June 26. In the course of the search, federal brokers seized a number of digital units.
“A assessment of LeGro’s work laptop computer revealed a folder that contained 11 movies depicting youngster sexual abuse materials,” the press launch acknowledged. “In the course of the execution of the search warrant brokers noticed what gave the impression to be fractured items of a tough drive within the hallway exterior the room the place LeGro’s work laptop computer was discovered.”
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“This case is being investigated by the FBI Washington Discipline Workplace’s Baby Exploitation and Human Trafficking Activity Power, which consists of FBI brokers, together with different federal brokers and detectives from northern Virginia and the District of Columbia. The duty pressure is charged with investigating and bringing federal costs in opposition to people engaged within the exploitation of kids and people engaged in human trafficking,” it added.
Who’s Thomas Pham LeGro?
Based on Fox5DC,Thomas Pham LeGro joined The Washington Publish in 2013 as a video editor on the breaking information desk. By 2015, he had been promoted to senior producer, overseeing the Worldwide, Model, and Expertise groups.
In 2017, LeGro was a part of the Publish group that obtained a Pulitzer Prize for its protection of the Senate candidacy of Roy Moore. In 2021, he was named govt producer, main the outlet’s Politics, Nationwide, Worldwide, and Expertise video groups.
His accolades embrace a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2018 (as a part of a group) and an Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative journalism.
