I’ve been a journalist for more than 20 years, and specialize in investigative stories on courts, crime and business. I was on staff as a reporter at the New York Times for almost a decade, and continue to write for it, along with The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, Elle, Insider, Marie Claire, Men’s Health, The New Yorker, Wired, and more.

Daily coverage of the Sam Bankman-Fried federal fraud trial in Manhattan; the founder of crypto exchange FTX and crypto trading firm Alameda Research is charged with taking unauthorized billions from customers.

My boarding-school classmate was an aspiring doctor with money and good looks. How did he end up in prison for hiring a hit man? To find out, I retraced his long trail of lies and abuse.

E-bike batteries are exploding, causing death and injury. What’s going on, and why isn’t anyone doing anything about it? An investigation for Consumer Reports that resulted in the Consumer Product Safety Commission sending letters to 2,000 manufacturers pushing them to meet safety standards.

Inside the luxe life—and telemarketing-fraud scheme—of Jen Shah, the “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star, as she is sentenced to 6.5 years in federal prison.

The Journalist and the Pharma Bro (Elle)

The viral Elle story about Christie Smythe, a onetime Bloomberg journalist covering the Martin Shkreli case—who then fell for Martin Shkreli. Winner, Deborah Howell Award for Writing Excellence, News Leaders Association.

When the Misdiagnosis Is Child Abuse (The Atlantic/The Marshall Project)

Some pediatricians are trained to determine whether kids’ injuries are accidental. Their assessments can be subjective—but they’re often accepted as fact. And when they’re wrong, parents can needlessly end up in jail. Honorable mention, John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism.

An investigator who probes wrongful convictions now doubts one of his own. This story helped prompt the retrial and acquittal of Bronx man Eddie Garry after 20 years in prison.

He Cyberstalked Teen Girls for Years—Then They Fought Back (Wired)

How a hacker shamed and humiliated high school girls in a small New Hampshire town, and how they helped take him down. Adapted into a Netflix documentary and a Lifetime movie-of-the-week.

Makeda Davis emerged from more than seven years in prison to a life that is complicated, unfamiliar, and, sometimes, soul crushing. Winner, Magazine Profile, Deadline Club Awards.

How Jessica Simpson Almost Lost Her Name (Bloomberg Businessweek)

At the Times, I covered courts, crime and business, winning a Loeb award for international reporting, among other awards. Some of my favorite pieces: How prosecutors are getting out of paying for wrongful convictions; a profile of the aging gangster Vincent Asaro, the last Mafioso standing, indicted for carrying out the “Goodfellas” Lufthansa heist; walking out of prison with Freddie Cox, who was denied parole for 28 years because he maintained his innocence; as his hedge fund collapsed, Martin Shkreli did too; how the overloaded court system affected one family, who waited through 41 court dates to resolve the case against a boy who attacked their son and caused irreversible brain damage; and, on the lighter side, how I trained my cat to walk on a leash.

Amazon’s first employee, Jeff Bezos’s ex-wife, and one of the world’s richest women is rewriting the philanthropy playbook

Entrepreneur Sarah Kauss built a thriving $100 million business — but she never imagined the hell she’d find on the other side. Winner, Explanatory Reporting, Society of American Business Editors and Writers.