Friday, 04 July 2025

Pulitzer Prize Winning Washington Post Journalist Charged With Possesion Of Child P*rnography


This is absolutely sickening.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Washington Post was arrested and charged with possession of child pornography on Friday.

In an immediate press release, the DOJ announced they have charged Washington Post journalist Thomas LeGro with possession of child pornography.

Fox 5 DC had more details on the arrest of LeGro:

An award-winning journalist with the Washington Post made his first court appearance on Friday after being charged with possession of child pornography.

The Department of Justice announced charges against Thomas Pham LeGro, 48, on Friday. LeGro is the Deputy Director of Video at the Washington Post.

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The DOJ says that on June 26, FBI agents executed a search warrant at LeGro’s residence and seized several electronic devices. Authorities say that they found a folder that contained 11 videos depicting child sexual abuse material on LeGro’s work laptop.

During the search, FBI agents also reported that they saw what appeared to be fractured pieces of a hard drive in the hallway outside the room where LeGro’s work laptop was found.

According to a personnel profile on the Washington Post’s website, LeGro serves as the Deputy Director of Video.

They say he joined the video department in 2013 as an editor on the breaking-news desk and in 2015 became the senior producer overseeing the International, Style and Technology teams.

In 2017, he was part of the team of Post reporters awarded a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Senate candidacy of Roy Moore. He was then promoted to executive producer in 2021, overseeing the Post’s Politics, National, International and Technology teams.

Here’s LeGro’s bio:

The DOJ had the full details of LeGro’s alleged crimes:

Thomas Pham LeGro, 48, made his first appearance today in U.S. District Court for allegedly possessing child pornography. LeGro, a journalist at the Washington Post and resident of the District of Columbia, was arrested yesterday and taken into custody following a search of his home.

The charges were announced by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro. Pirro thanks FBI Assistant Director in Charge Steven J. Jensen and Chief Pamela Smith of the Metropolitan Police Department for their ongoing efforts in this investigation.

On June 26, 2025, FBI agents executed a search warrant at LeGro’s residence and seized several electronic devices. A review of LeGro’s work laptop revealed a folder that contained 11 videos depicting child sexual abuse material.

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During the execution of the search warrant agents observed what appeared to be fractured pieces of a hard drive in the hallway outside the room where LeGro’s work laptop was found.

This case is being investigated by the FBI Washington Field Office’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, which is composed of FBI agents, along with other federal agents and detectives from northern Virginia and the District of Columbia. The task force is charged with investigating and bringing federal charges against individuals engaged in the exploitation of children and those engaged in human trafficking.

This matter is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Caroline Burrell and Janani Iyengar for the District of Columbia.

Bezos needs to clean house at the Washington Post fast!

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