An anti-Trump, award-winning senior Washington Post editor has been arrested for stomach-churning crimes against children.
48-year-old Thomas Pham LeGro, who once received a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, has been arrested on federal charges of possessing child pornography.
LeGro was taken into custody Thursday following a raid on his Washington, D.C., home.
Federal prosecutors say LeGro’s work laptop contained a folder with at least 11 videos depicting child sexual abuse.
He made his first appearance in U.S. District Court on Friday.
LeGro is a prominent figure in the corporate media.
He previously bragged in his Washington Post bio about his role in the paper’s coverage of Roy Moore’s 2017 Senate campaign in Alabama.
That reporting, which included allegations of Moore’s inappropriate interest in teenage girls in the 1970s, helped sink the GOP candidate’s run and earned the paper a Pulitzer Prize.
“In 2018, Tom LeGro was part of a team of Post reporters who were awarded a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Senate candidacy of Roy Moore and a subsequent effort to discredit The Post’s reporting,”