I focus on government investigations and trials in New York state and federal court. After practicing law for close to a decade, I transitioned to reporting in 2020. I harness my legal background to provide transparency and clarity to the justice system. Most days, that means I’m back in the same courthouses where I worked for years as a lawyer, but now providing live updates and analysis on Mr. Trump’s ongoing legal matters.
I served as an assistant district attorney in the Bronx, where I prosecuted economic crime, child exploitation and animal abuse. I also served as an assistant district attorney in the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor in New York City and as an assistant attorney general for the State of Ohio. I also have experience in television news and worked as an on-air reporter in the Bronx and Brooklyn where I’d film, write and edit my own stories. I went to law school at Ohio State University and then got my master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.
Like all journalists who write for The Times, I am committed to upholding the standards of integrity outlined in The Times’s Ethical Journalism Handbook.
Donald J. Trump’s sentencing in Manhattan was delayed, thanks in part to his legal resources and political status. It raised a question: Is he above the law?
By Ben Protess, Kate Christobek and William K. Rashbaum
The decision by Justice Juan M. Merchan means voters will be left in the dark about whether the former president will face time behind bars.
By Ben Protess, Kate Christobek and William K. Rashbaum
Judge Alvin Hellerstein said the Supreme Court’s finding that presidents enjoy immunity does not apply in the hush-money case in which Donald Trump was already convicted.
By Jesse McKinley
Ms. James, New York’s attorney general, argued that the civil fraud judgment, which the former president has appealed, should stand. It could wipe out his cash reserves.
By Kate Christobek and Ben Protess
Lawyers for Donald J. Trump had asked to move his sentencing in Manhattan on 34 felony counts to after the election. In a letter, prosecutors disputed many of their arguments.
By Ben Protess, Kate Christobek and Jonah E. Bromwich
Donald J. Trump, who has routinely sought delays in his four criminal cases, wants to use the extra time to fight his conviction on 34 felony counts in Manhattan.
By Ben Protess, Kate Christobek and Jonah E. Bromwich
Justice Juan M. Merchan, who oversaw the trial that led to Donald J. Trump’s conviction, declined for a third time to step aside from the case, dismissing claims from defense lawyers that he had a conflict of interest.
By Kate Christobek and Ben Protess
In a ruling on Monday, a New York judge decided against imposing an outside monitor and pressed the gun group to change its administrative practices.
By Danny Hakim and Kate Christobek
The new chief executive is at odds with the new board president, just as the organization is arguing against a court-ordered monitor to oversee its finances.
By Danny Hakim and Kate Christobek
Attorney General Letitia James wants a monitor appointed to oversee the gun group’s accounts after millions in misspending.
By Danny Hakim and Kate Christobek
A recent Supreme Court ruling should nullify the guilty verdict in Donald Trump’s Manhattan trial, his lawyers said. The argument could be a long shot.
By Ben Protess, William K. Rashbaum and Kate Christobek
Donald J. Trump’s lawyers want to argue that a Supreme Court decision giving presidents immunity for official acts should void his felony conviction for covering up hush money paid to a porn star.
By Ben Protess, William K. Rashbaum, Kate Christobek and Wesley Parnell
Donald J. Trump claims the order has unfairly restricted his free speech rights ahead of his sentencing on 34 felony counts. He has nonetheless attacked the judge, prosecutor and justice system.
By Jesse McKinley and Kate Christobek
They heard weeks of testimony in Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial. Then the 12 New Yorkers who made up the jury stuck to the task at hand.
By Kate Christobek, Jesse McKinley, Olivia Bensimon, Anusha Bayya and Wesley Parnell
Donald J. Trump will live the life of a New York convict until he is sentenced on July 11. He faces as long as four years in prison.
By Jesse McKinley and Kate Christobek
Over six weeks and the testimony of 20 witnesses, prosecutors wove a sprawling story of election interference and falsified business records.
By Kate Christobek
A Manhattan jury found that he had falsified business records to conceal a sex scandal that could have hindered his 2016 campaign for the White House.
By Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich, Maggie Haberman, Kate Christobek, Jesse McKinley and William K. Rashbaum
This was featured in live coverage.
By Kate Christobek
The 12 unidentified jurors have retreated behind closed doors and started to debate whether the first president to be criminally prosecuted has committed felony crimes.
By Kate Christobek
Each of the 34 counts carries the possibility of up to four years in prison, but incarceration is not a given: Justice Juan M. Merchan could opt to impose a sentence of probation, with no prison time.
By Kate Christobek
Defense lawyers and prosecutors tried strategy and stagecraft to sway jurors. The panel of 12 New Yorkers will get the case Wednesday morning.
By Jesse McKinley and Kate Christobek
Joshua Steinglass is part of the Manhattan district attorney’s team that includes veteran prosecutors and former white-collar criminal defense lawyers.
By Kate Christobek
A defense lawyer painted Donald J. Trump as the victim of unscrupulous people, but a prosecutor said Mr. Trump had directed a scheme to conceal a hush-money payment.
By Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich and Maggie Haberman
Each side will have an opportunity to summarize its case before the jury begins to deliberate.
By Kate Christobek
Donald J. Trump’s lawyers are expected to highlight the absence of Allen Weisselberg, Mr. Trump’s former finance chief. But he is in jail, serving time for perjury.
By Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich and William K. Rashbaum
Donald J. Trump’s lawyers called two witnesses and he was not one of them. Closing arguments will happen May 28.
By Jesse McKinley and Kate Christobek
Donald J. Trump’s lawyers mounted a minimal defense after prosecutors called 20 witnesses. Closing arguments in the first prosecution of an American president will take place May 28.
By Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich, Maggie Haberman and William K. Rashbaum
The judge became furious with a defense witness, and Michael D. Cohen kept his cool.
By Kate Christobek and Jesse McKinley
Michael D. Cohen admitted stealing from the Trump Organization. The judge excoriated a defense witness. And Donald J. Trump’s entourage included a former leader of the Hells Angels.
By Jonah E. Bromwich, Ben Protess and Maggie Haberman
The machinery of celebrity is being laid bare in a Manhattan courtroom amid the first criminal prosecution of a former U.S. president.
By Jesse McKinley
After a grueling day of cross-examination for Michael D. Cohen, the judge told lawyers to be ready to make closing arguments by Tuesday.
By Kate Christobek and Jesse McKinley
Michael D. Cohen tried to parry attacks on his honesty as Todd Blanche, Donald J. Trump’s lawyer, tried to destroy his credibility with jurors.
By Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich and Maggie Haberman
The key prosecution witness faced defense lawyers as the trial nears what may be an unexpectedly early conclusion.
By Jesse McKinley and Kate Christobek
Michael D. Cohen’s story of an arrangement struck in the White House with Donald Trump was the only personal account tying the former president to falsified documents.
By Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich and Maggie Haberman
In hotly anticipated testimony, Donald J. Trump’s former fixer discussed how he buried stories his boss didn’t want anyone to read.
By Jesse McKinley and Kate Christobek
Donald J. Trump’s former bulldog told jurors about his work: threatening enemies, cleaning up problems and burying embarrassing stories.
By Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich and Maggie Haberman
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has sent supporters a steady stream of fund-raising solicitations featuring exaggerated portrayals of his days in court.
By Michael Gold
The fourth week of the trial interspersed intense and emotional testimony with talk of documents and chains of custody.
By Kate Christobek and Jesse McKinley
In a grueling day of cross-examination, Ms. Daniels sparred with Donald J. Trump’s lawyers, showing steely humor, but also vulnerability.
By Kate Christobek and Jesse McKinley
In a second day of cross-examination, Ms. Daniels resisted the implication she had tried to shake down Donald J. Trump by selling her story of a sexual liaison.
By Jonah E. Bromwich, Ben Protess and Maggie Haberman
A long day on the stand put Ms. Daniels’s credibility to the test as defense lawyers challenged her motives.
By Kate Christobek and Jesse McKinley
The porn star at the center of the ex-president’s criminal trial, who will testify again on Thursday, spoke under oath about their encounter at a golf tournament in 2006, a meeting that could shape American history.
By Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich, Maggie Haberman, Michael Rothfeld and Jonathan Swan
Donald J. Trump’s books provided prosecutors with passages they believe can help their case, as they argue that he knew that his company falsified business records to cover up a hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels.
By Kate Christobek, Ben Protess and Jonah E. Bromwich
Prosecutors on Monday took the jury deep into the Trump Organization’s ledgers as the state’s case proceeds at speed.
By Jesse McKinley and Kate Christobek
Before prosecutors began presenting crucial records, the judge held Donald J. Trump in contempt, saying his complaints about the jury were “a direct attack on the rule of law.”
By Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich, Alan Feuer and William K. Rashbaum
The dramatic appearance of Ms. Hicks, once one of Donald J. Trump’s closest aides, riveted the audience. During her testimony, she blinked back tears.
By Michael M. Grynbaum
In a riveted courtroom, Ms. Hicks, the former spokeswoman for Donald J. Trump, testified how she and her former boss managed one scandal after another.
By Jesse McKinley and Kate Christobek
Hope Hicks, once a spokeswoman for Donald J. Trump, broke down in tears on the witness stand as she talked about their time together.
By Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Stormy Daniels’s former lawyer faced a tough cross-examination as Donald J. Trump’s team tried to paint him as a shakedown artist.
By Kate Christobek and Jesse McKinley
The tape, played at the former president’s criminal trial, captured Michael Cohen telling Donald Trump about a payment to a former Playboy model.
By Jonah E. Bromwich and Jesse McKinley
Donald J. Trump was fined for contempt and warned of jail time before a lawyer testified about how he struck deals to silence two women who said they had trysts with the former president.
By Jesse McKinley and Kate Christobek
Keith Davidson, a lawyer for Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, will resume testimony on Thursday.
By Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich, Alan Feuer and William K. Rashbaum
Donald J. Trump demands praise and concedes no faults, denying his lawyers time-honored defense tactics.
By Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich, Maggie Haberman and William K. Rashbaum
A tabloid publisher’s testimony dominated a week that began with opening statements setting the stage for the first prosecution of a president.
By Kate Christobek and Jesse McKinley
David Pecker told jurors of a universe in which favors for celebrities were demanded and dispensed. His cross-examination will continue Friday.
By Jesse McKinley and Kate Christobek
David Pecker, former publisher of The National Enquirer, testified that Donald J. Trump thanked him for burying stories.
By Jonah E. Bromwich, Ben Protess and Michael Rothfeld
Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan is off to an ominous start for the former president, and it might not get any easier in the days ahead.
By Jonah E. Bromwich, Ben Protess and Maggie Haberman
Donald J. Trump’s lawyer was harshly questioned as he tried to avoid a contempt citation. And a publisher testified about how he put The National Enquirer to work for Mr. Trump’s campaign.
By Jesse McKinley and Kate Christobek
Plus, “Blair Witch” actors push for royalties.
By Tracy Mumford, Alan Blinder, Kate Christobek, Julian E. Barnes, Ian Stewart, Jessica Metzger and James Shield
The prosecution’s opening statement sketched a seamy scheme meant to further the election of Donald J. Trump. His lawyer said the government’s case is merely “34 pieces of paper.”
By Jonah E. Bromwich and Ben Protess
Prosecutors signaled a sweeping case and Donald J. Trump’s lawyers began their assault on witnesses’ credibility. The judge seems intent on expediting the first trial of an American president.
By Jesse McKinley and Kate Christobek
This was featured in live coverage.
By Jonah E. Bromwich and Kate Christobek
Mr. Blanche is also representing the former president in his federal classified documents case in Florida and his federal election interference case in Washington.
By Kate Christobek
Manhattan’s district attorney assembled a group of experienced courtroom hands, some of whom have confronted the former president before.
By Kate Christobek
The defendant is unique, but the basic structure and rhythms of the trial resemble every American prosecution.
By Kate Christobek
A jury has been selected and opening statements are set to begin in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial in Manhattan. Kate Christobek, a court reporter for The New York Times, breaks down what to watch.
By Kate Christobek, Gabriel Blanco and Claire Hogan
A full jury is seated, a horrifying incident shocks the court and opening statements are set to begin on Monday.
By Jesse McKinley and Kate Christobek
Just after the last selections of alternate jurors were made, a man set himself on fire outside the courthouse, horrifying onlookers. But the case was not delayed.
By Jesse McKinley and Jonah E. Bromwich
The former president faces dozens of felony charges stemming from hush-money payments to a porn star. He would undoubtedly appeal any conviction, and the presiding judge has leeway on sentencing.
By Ben Protess, Kate Christobek and Jonah E. Bromwich
A jury of 12 people was chosen, and alternate members will be picked Friday. They will help write American history.
By Jesse McKinley and Kate Christobek