Robert Faturechi
Robert Faturechi is an investigative reporter at ProPublica. He has reported on campaigns to block safety standards, the deregulation efforts, by political consultants and corporate targeting state elections officials. He broke stories on Sen. Richard Burr selling off stock before the coronavirus market crash, and former HHS Secretary Tom Price taking official actions that overlapped with his personal financial interests.
In 2020, he and two colleagues won the for National Reporting for a series of stories about avoidable deaths in the Navy and Marine Corps, and the failure of top commanders to heed warnings and implement reforms that could have saved lives.
His reporting has resulted in congressional hearings, new legislation, federal indictments and widespread reforms.
Before joining ProPublica, he was a reporter at The Los Angeles Times, where his work exposed , cronyism, secret cop cliques and at the Los Angeles County Sheriff鈥檚 Department. In 2013, he obtained an unprecedented cache of that showed the agency knowingly hired dozens of cops with histories of serious misconduct. His stories helped lead to sweeping reforms at the nation鈥檚 largest jail system, criminal convictions of sheriff鈥檚 deputies and the resignation of the sheriff.
Faturechi lives in Los Angeles and graduated from UCLA in 2008.
You can send him story tips and documents through email at Robert.Faturechi@propublica.org or on Signal/WhatsApp at (213) 271-7217.
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IRS records reveal how Gov. Jared Polis, Gov. Jim Justice, former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and other wealthy political figures slashed their taxes using strategies unavailable to most of their constituents.
