Investigative/ Business Reporter
The Virgin Islands Daily News
Covered a wide range of beats and topics such as business, public utilities, regulatory agencies, pension funds, government finance, court hearings, legislative hearings, bankruptcies, economic trends, tourism, development and environmental issues. Extensive use of public documents, territorial and state business filings, and court records to get information on corporations, principals, and managers.Specialized in long-term projects that required project management, meticulous researching and tenacious reporting.Professional highlights• Uncovered massive government contract fraud in an investigative series that resulted in a federal investigation, convictions and prison sentences of four high-ranking government officials and two business professionals. The project was a finalist in two national journalism awards: Scripps Howard Foundation Ursula and Gilbert Farfel Prize for Investigative Reporting; and the Associated Press Managing Editors Award for Public Service, both in 2005.• Exposed lavish pay packages of hospital executives and chronic lack of hospital oversight during a time when the medical facility faced chronic shortages of life-saving chemotherapy drugs. The project won two national journalism awards: Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, 2008, and the Associated Press Managing Editors Award for Public Service, 2009.• Led a team of reporters in a project that revealed a proposed environmental fee would severely impact the Virgin Islands economy. The project won the Associated Press Managing Editors Award for Public Service, 2008.• Dispatched to Haiti to chronicle non-profit’s effort to combat villagers’ chronic disease and starvation in May 2009. Report led to a marked increase in donations of clothing, food and medical supplies.
