Posted on 06/27/2025 3:13:44 PM PDT by george76
A Washington Post editor who was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Senate candidate Roy Moore and his alleged attraction to minor teen girls, was arrested for possessing child pornography.
Thomas Pham LeGro, 48, was arrested on Thursday and made his first appearance in US District Court on Friday.
According to federal prosecutors, a review of LeGro’s laptop revealed a folder that contained 11 videos depicting child sexual abuse material.
Thomas Pham LeGro’s bio at the Washington Post bragged about his coverage of GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore. Recall that Roy Moore was lambasted over his alleged attraction to minor teen girls back in the 70s.
“In 2018, Tom LeGro was part of a team of Post reporters who were awarded a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Senate candidacy of Roy Moore and a subsequent effort to discredit The Post’s reporting. As Deputy Director of Video, Tom oversees an award-winning team of video journalists who work across the newsroom, including in National, Climate, Metro, Style and Technology. Tom joined Video in 2013 as an editor on the breaking-news desk and in 2015 became the senior producer overseeing the International, Style and Technology teams. In 2017, he was part of the team of Post reporters awarded a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Senate candidacy of Roy Moore and the subsequent effort to discredit The Post’s reporting. Tom was promoted to executive producer in 2021, overseeing the Politics, National, International and Technology teams. Tom first worked for The Post from 2000 to 2006 in Sports, as a news aide and then later as a copy editor. From 2006 to 2013, Tom was a reporter-producer for “PBS NewsHour,” covering arts and culture, before returning to The Post,” LeGro’s bio read.
Per the DC US Attorney’s Office:
Thomas Pham LeGro, 48, made his first appearance today in U.S. District Court for allegedly possessing child pornography. LeGro, a journalist at the Washington Post and resident of the District of Columbia, was arrested yesterday and taken into custody following a search of his home.
The charges were announced by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro. Pirro thanks FBI Assistant Director in Charge Steven J. Jensen and Chief Pamela Smith of the Metropolitan Police Department for their ongoing efforts in this investigation.
On June 26, 2025, FBI agents executed a search warrant at LeGro’s residence and seized several electronic devices. A review of LeGro’s work laptop revealed a folder that contained 11 videos depicting child sexual abuse material.
During the execution of the search warrant agents observed what appeared to be fractured pieces of a hard drive in the hallway outside the room where LeGro’s work laptop was found.
This case is being investigated by the FBI Washington Field Office’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, which is composed of FBI agents, along with other federal agents and detectives from northern Virginia and the District of Columbia. The task force is charged with investigating and bringing federal charges against individuals engaged in the exploitation of children and those engaged in human trafficking.
There was no conviction, just a bunch of allegations that he liked teen girls when he was in his 20s. Moore actually won a defamation lawsuit over these allegations.
Moore would marry his wife when he was 38 and she was 24, but she had already been married and divorced by this time so he wasn't exactly robbing the cradle.
Photo on top....
After the No Kings march we should have held No Queens ones.
I remember as a 14 year old freshman boy how some of my female classmates were starting to look as old as the senior girls. I didn’t need to shave until I was 19.
Same here. I distinctly remember coming back from summer vacation one year in high school to find some of my female classmates looked a lot more, shall we say, mature.
The Washington Post is a criminal enterprise and should be a listed as a corporate co-conspirator.
Looks like Lieutenant Colonel Vindman’s little brother.
Every time you think you hate WaPo journalists too much, something like this turns up. These are our ruling class, you know. Experts. Better than us...
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Why am I not surprised?????.........
Hearing Roy Moore speak here in Maryland in 1995 is one of the reasons I became a solid conservative. He fought the good fight in Alabama for the Ten Commandments at his courthouse. He was an early canary in the coal mine, enduring the lawfare that has since become commonplace against conservatives.
While I personally find the teenage courtship and marriage that Moor was accused of unsavory, there were many places in rural America where it was accepted by families. Prriscilla Presley’s family let her go and live with Elvis’ family when she was 17, as one prominent example from 60 years ago.
The FBI said in charging papers that LeGro was linked to an account identified in 2005 as part of an investigation into E-Gold, a payment company used by child pornography websites.An April 2006 subpoena to a third-party technology company linked LeGro to the account, and two other E-Gold accounts had similar user names and were associated with the same address and phone number as the first, the FBI said.
The unredacted portion of the FBI affidavit did not state what if anything came of that nearly two-decade-old inquiry into LeGro’s internet activity, or what prompted renewed investigation last month, when the FBI received court approval May 8 to track activity on LeGro’s Verizon internet account. A magistrate judge approved a search warrant on Tuesday, charging papers said, but the application for the warrant remained sealed.
The Washington Post said in a statement that it “understands the severity of these allegations, and the employee has been placed on leave,” but declined to comment further.
Two decades later, now we know the rest of the story.
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