Joaquin Sapien
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New York, NY, United States
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New Details Suggest Senior Trump Aides Knew Jan. 6 Rally Could Get Chaotic
Text messages and interviews show that Stop the Steal leaders fooled the Capitol police and welcomed racists to increase their crowd sizes, while White House officials worked to both contain and appease them. → Read More
In Exclusive Jailhouse Letter, Capitol Riot Defendant Explains Motives, Remains Boastful
The material obtained by ProPublica sheds light on the radicalization of a Jan. 6 defendant whom prosecutors have characterized as a “serious danger ... not only to his family and Congress, but to the entire system of justice.” → Read More
6 Questions Officials Still Haven’t Answered After Weeks of Hearings on the Capitol Attack
More than 15 hours of testimony failed to answer fundamental questions about the Capitol attack. Among them: Why national security officials responded differently to BLM protesters than to Trump supporters. → Read More
“I Don’t Trust the People Above Me”: Riot Squad Cops Open Up About Disastrous Response to Capitol Insurrection
Interviews with 19 current and former officers show how failures of leadership and communication put hundreds of Capitol cops at risk and allowed rioters to get dangerously close to members of Congress. → Read More
“No One Took Us Seriously”: Black Cops Warned About Racist Capitol Police Officers for Years
Allegations of racism against the Capitol Police are nothing new: Over 250 Black cops have sued the department since 2001. Some of those former officers now say it’s no surprise white nationalists were able to storm the building. → Read More
NYPD Cops Cash In on Sex Trade Arrests With Little Evidence, While Black and Brown New Yorkers Pay the Price —
Some NYPD officers who police the sex trade, driven by overtime pay, go undercover to round up as many “bodies” as they can with little evidence. Almost no one they arrest is white. → Read More
Local Officials Say a Nursing Home Dumped Residents to Die at Hospitals —
The deaths of 18 residents of a New York nursing home highlight the continuing controversy over the Cuomo administration’s decision not to count deaths in hospitals as nursing home deaths. The home denies the allegations. → Read More
“Fire Through Dry Grass”: Andrew Cuomo Saw COVID-19’s Threat to Nursing Homes. Then He Risked Adding to It. —
A nursing home in Troy, New York, followed the governor’s order to accept patients being treated for COVID-19. Six weeks later, 18 residents were dead of the disease. → Read More
Two Coasts. One Virus. How New York Suffered Nearly 10 Times the Number of Deaths as California. —
California’s governor and San Francisco’s mayor worked together to act early in confronting the COVID threat. For Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio, it was a different story, and 27,000 New Yorkers have died so far. → Read More
Criminal Justice Legislation Will Force New York Prosecutors to Disclose More Evidence, Sooner —
Following years of scandal over wrongful convictions, the state legislature has passed reform measures that could help stop them. → Read More
Behind “Right to Fail,” a ProPublica-Frontline Collaboration to Overcome Roadblocks and Privacy Restrictions
A story that began as an examination of New York’s troubled group homes for mentally ill adults evolved into an investigation of the state’s preferred solution to those problems. → Read More
After Years in Institutions, a Road Home Paved With Hunger, Violence and Death
A housing ruling gave Nestor Bunch independence, with limited support. Was he ready? → Read More
Bill Proposes Greater Accountability for New York Prosecutors Who Break the Law
With his signature, Gov. Andrew Cuomo could create an independent state commission to investigate and sanction prosecutors who withhold evidence or commit other abuses. → Read More
The Breakthrough: A Reporter Goes to Ground Zero for Today’s American HIV Epidemic
Linda Villarosa had spent decades covering the spread of AIDS. She thought she was done. Then, she visited Jackson, Mississippi. → Read More
The Breakthrough: How a Reporter Uncovered Widespread Russian Meddling — In the Olympics —
New York Times reporter Rebecca Ruiz scored a confession from a Russian doctor at the center of a doping scandal that spoiled the 2014 Winter Games. → Read More
The Breakthrough: A Reporter Finds a Man Proven Innocent, But Still Guilty in Eyes of the Law —
ProPublica’s Megan Rose tells the story of a Las Vegas circus performer, a drifter and an ambitious prosecutor tangled in a case of wrongful conviction. → Read More
The Breakthrough: Hopelessness and Exploitation Inside Homes for Mentally Ill —
A reporter finds that homes meant to replace New York’s troubled psychiatric hospitals might be just as bad. → Read More
Westchester County's Ongoing Failure to Support Integrated Housing
The Trump administration ended a years-long battle over fair housing, but the promise to end segregation was broken long before that. → Read More
‘The 100th Nail in the Coffin’ for Integration in Westchester County
The Trump administration ended a yearslong battle over fair housing, but the promise to end segregation was broken long before that. → Read More
The Breakthrough: Reporting on Life and Death in the Delivery Room
ProPublica reporter Nina Martin and her team used social media and old-fashioned shoe leather to show how the U.S. has the worst maternal death rate in the developed world. → Read More