ProjectPolitics Wayne Barrett Project The Wayne Barrett Project honors Wayne’s legacy by supporting ambitious investigative reporting projects focused on politics and corruption in both New York City and on the national stage. Investigations InvestigationUncategorized A Death at Walmart Janikka Perry never made it home from her shift at the bakery of a supercenter in Arkansas. She was one of many Walmart workers who have been pressured to work through illness or pain, sometimes with devastating consequences. Jasper CravenNew RepublicJanuary 16, 2024 InvestigationPolitics The Eric Adams Table of Success Mayor Adams has said that “all my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success.” Who’s at the table? How are they related? Why do they matter? Christopher Robbins, Esther Wang, Max Rivlin-Nadler, Nick Pinto, Adlan Jackson & Katie WayHell GateDecember 18, 2023 InvestigationJustice Anatomy of a Police Shooting Documents shed light on the events that culminated in the police killing of teenager Donnell Rochester. Baynard WoodsBaltimore BeatOctober 17, 2023 InvestigationJustice, Politics Prisoners Say New Jersey’s Alternative To Solitary Confinement Is Pretty Much The Same Progressives celebrated a 2019 law meant to reform solitary confinement. But the state’s Department of Corrections doesn’t seem to be following it. Christopher Blackwell & Nina ZweigHuffPostOctober 7, 2023 InvestigationJustice The Brief, Beautiful Life of Donnell Rochester This is the first of a two-part investigation of the police shooting of Donnell Rochester. Baynard WoodsBaltimore BeatJune 14, 2023 InvestigationPolitics How Donald Trump Jr. Promised—and Failed—to House the World’s Poor He and a partner were going to build “millions of houses” for poor people in the developing world. They built virtually no units, left investors high and dry, and sued creditors rather than pay them. Joe RubinNew RepublicJuly 21, 2022 InvestigationPolitics How Does Don Jr. Roll? Donald Trump Jr. teases about a political future. But what do we really know about him? In Charleston County, South Carolina, they know more than most. Joe RubinNew RepublicSeptember 17, 2021 InvestigationImmigration, Justice, Politics The Matter Of Castro Tum How Jeff Sessions made it harder for judges to let immigrants stay in the US. Alissa Escarce, Mazin Sidahmed & Max SiegelbaumLatino USA, DocumentedOctober 9, 2020 InvestigationImmigration, Justice At The Mercy Of The Courts We spent a year investigating the impact of Trump's policies on New York's immigration courts. Max Siegelbaum & Mazin SidahmedLatino USA, DocumentedMay 13, 2020 InvestigationBusiness How One Company Is Making Millions Off Trump’s War on the Poor President Trump plans to make the poor work for Medicaid and food stamps. That’s extremely punitive for them—but highly lucrative for companies like Maximus. Tracie McMillanMother JonesDecember 17, 2018 InvestigationBusiness, Politics The LLC Loophole In New York, where an LLC is legally a person, companies can use the vehicles to blast through campaign finance limits. Jarrett MurphyCity LimitsSeptember 7, 2018 InvestigationPolitics Political Corruption and the Art of the Deal How Trump's business partnerships in India are creating conflicts of interest in the White House and corrupting the presidency. Anjali KamatNew RepublicMarch 21, 2018 InvestigationPolitics Former Indian Official: Trump Jr. Pushed “Blatantly Illegal” Project A look at the Trumps’ years-long work in India, where corruption in the real estate industry is endemic. Anjali KamatWNYC, ProPublicaMarch 21, 2018 InvestigationPolitics The Many Red Flags of Trump’s Partners in India The Trump Organization has five active projects in India, where corruption in the real estate industry is not uncommon. Anjali KamatWNYC, ProPublicaMarch 28, 2018 Backstories BackstoryPolitics The Backstory: Anjali Kamat Kamat discusses her months of reporting in India, investigating the Trump Organization’s lucrative real estate deals in the country, valued at an estimated $1.5 billion. Anjali KamatApril 5, 2018 News & Analysis AnalysisBusiness, Politics Ray McGuire’s Billions in Deals Triggered Thousands of Layoffs The New York City mayoral candidate says his achievements as a financier will equip him well to steer the city. But many of the mega-mergers he brokered left big batches of workers behind. Jarrett MurphyCity LimitsMay 21, 2021 AnalysisJustice, Politics In Advocating ‘Precision Policing,’ Mayoral Hopeful Eric Adams Embraces A Term That Police Critics Condemn The de Blasio administration used the term to refer to gang crackdowns, domestic violence response, nuisance abatement, efforts to stop knife violence and more. Jarrett MurphyCity LimitsApril 29, 2021 AnalysisPolitics Andrew Yang Disrupts the Mayor’s Race, But Some of His Ideas Fall Flat Do his comments on casinos, yeshivas and the teachers union suggest that his campaign has not done its homework? Jarrett MurphyCity LimitsApril 7, 2021 Inside TI Inside TIJournalism Announcing the Wayne Barrett Project The goal of the project is to support ambitious reporting that builds on Wayne’s journalistic legacy and focuses on politics and corruption in New York City and on the national stage. The Investigative FundNovember 7, 2017
InvestigationUncategorized A Death at Walmart Janikka Perry never made it home from her shift at the bakery of a supercenter in Arkansas. She was one of many Walmart workers who have been pressured to work through illness or pain, sometimes with devastating consequences. Jasper CravenNew RepublicJanuary 16, 2024
InvestigationPolitics The Eric Adams Table of Success Mayor Adams has said that “all my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success.” Who’s at the table? How are they related? Why do they matter? Christopher Robbins, Esther Wang, Max Rivlin-Nadler, Nick Pinto, Adlan Jackson & Katie WayHell GateDecember 18, 2023
InvestigationJustice Anatomy of a Police Shooting Documents shed light on the events that culminated in the police killing of teenager Donnell Rochester. Baynard WoodsBaltimore BeatOctober 17, 2023
InvestigationJustice, Politics Prisoners Say New Jersey’s Alternative To Solitary Confinement Is Pretty Much The Same Progressives celebrated a 2019 law meant to reform solitary confinement. But the state’s Department of Corrections doesn’t seem to be following it. Christopher Blackwell & Nina ZweigHuffPostOctober 7, 2023
InvestigationJustice The Brief, Beautiful Life of Donnell Rochester This is the first of a two-part investigation of the police shooting of Donnell Rochester. Baynard WoodsBaltimore BeatJune 14, 2023
InvestigationPolitics How Donald Trump Jr. Promised—and Failed—to House the World’s Poor He and a partner were going to build “millions of houses” for poor people in the developing world. They built virtually no units, left investors high and dry, and sued creditors rather than pay them. Joe RubinNew RepublicJuly 21, 2022
InvestigationPolitics How Does Don Jr. Roll? Donald Trump Jr. teases about a political future. But what do we really know about him? In Charleston County, South Carolina, they know more than most. Joe RubinNew RepublicSeptember 17, 2021
InvestigationImmigration, Justice, Politics The Matter Of Castro Tum How Jeff Sessions made it harder for judges to let immigrants stay in the US. Alissa Escarce, Mazin Sidahmed & Max SiegelbaumLatino USA, DocumentedOctober 9, 2020
InvestigationImmigration, Justice At The Mercy Of The Courts We spent a year investigating the impact of Trump's policies on New York's immigration courts. Max Siegelbaum & Mazin SidahmedLatino USA, DocumentedMay 13, 2020
InvestigationBusiness How One Company Is Making Millions Off Trump’s War on the Poor President Trump plans to make the poor work for Medicaid and food stamps. That’s extremely punitive for them—but highly lucrative for companies like Maximus. Tracie McMillanMother JonesDecember 17, 2018
InvestigationBusiness, Politics The LLC Loophole In New York, where an LLC is legally a person, companies can use the vehicles to blast through campaign finance limits. Jarrett MurphyCity LimitsSeptember 7, 2018
InvestigationPolitics Political Corruption and the Art of the Deal How Trump's business partnerships in India are creating conflicts of interest in the White House and corrupting the presidency. Anjali KamatNew RepublicMarch 21, 2018
InvestigationPolitics Former Indian Official: Trump Jr. Pushed “Blatantly Illegal” Project A look at the Trumps’ years-long work in India, where corruption in the real estate industry is endemic. Anjali KamatWNYC, ProPublicaMarch 21, 2018
InvestigationPolitics The Many Red Flags of Trump’s Partners in India The Trump Organization has five active projects in India, where corruption in the real estate industry is not uncommon. Anjali KamatWNYC, ProPublicaMarch 28, 2018
BackstoryPolitics The Backstory: Anjali Kamat Kamat discusses her months of reporting in India, investigating the Trump Organization’s lucrative real estate deals in the country, valued at an estimated $1.5 billion. Anjali KamatApril 5, 2018
AnalysisBusiness, Politics Ray McGuire’s Billions in Deals Triggered Thousands of Layoffs The New York City mayoral candidate says his achievements as a financier will equip him well to steer the city. But many of the mega-mergers he brokered left big batches of workers behind. Jarrett MurphyCity LimitsMay 21, 2021
AnalysisJustice, Politics In Advocating ‘Precision Policing,’ Mayoral Hopeful Eric Adams Embraces A Term That Police Critics Condemn The de Blasio administration used the term to refer to gang crackdowns, domestic violence response, nuisance abatement, efforts to stop knife violence and more. Jarrett MurphyCity LimitsApril 29, 2021
AnalysisPolitics Andrew Yang Disrupts the Mayor’s Race, But Some of His Ideas Fall Flat Do his comments on casinos, yeshivas and the teachers union suggest that his campaign has not done its homework? Jarrett MurphyCity LimitsApril 7, 2021
Inside TIJournalism Announcing the Wayne Barrett Project The goal of the project is to support ambitious reporting that builds on Wayne’s journalistic legacy and focuses on politics and corruption in New York City and on the national stage. The Investigative FundNovember 7, 2017