The New York Post, our nation’s second oldest continuously published daily newspaper, founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1801, reported:
As a member of WaPo’s video department, (Thomas LeGro) was part of a team of reporters that won a prestigious Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for coverage of former Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore.
Moore threatened to sue the Washington Post that year after the outlet published allegations that he romantically pursued a 14-year-old girl when he was in his 30s, which he vehemently denied.
As someone who managed to trash Mr Moore’s Senate candidacy with allegations that he used to date underaged girls, one would thing that Thomas LeGro would understand the dangers of child pornography, but apparently he (allegedly) did not. From The Washington Post:
Washington Post editor charged with possessing child pornography
Federal agents raided Thomas LeGro’s home Thursday.
by Spencer S Hsu | Friday, June 27, 2025 | 5:01 PM EDT
A video editor for The Washington Post was arrested Thursday on a federal charge of possessing child pornography, according to prosecutors.
Thomas P. LeGro, 48, who has worked at The Post for 18 years in two stints since 2000, was held after an initial appearance Friday before a U.S. magistrate judge in D.C., pending a detention hearing next Wednesday.
The Federal Defender’s Office for the District, which represented LeGro for purposes of the court appearance, declined to comment, as did LeGro’s family.
Charging papers filed Thursday and unsealed Friday were largely redacted, leaving the origins of the investigation unclear. But a 13-page FBI arrest affidavit said agents during a search Thursday of LeGro’s home recovered an Apple MacBook laptop containing 11 video files depicting child pornography. Prosecutors said Friday it was LeGro’s work computer.
There’s more at the original. Near the end:
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.
Why do supposedly educated people, why do people in the credentialed media who see the reports of others getting busted, keep doing this s(tuff)? How does someone who is well-versed in computer technology, something Mr LeGro would have to be to be a video editor for one of the most prestigious newspaper’s in America, (allegedly) think he can get away with this?
I have frequently referred to Leroy Jethro Gibbs line in NCIS, when he was depicted as interrogating some young and wimpy college nerds, “Believe me, son, you will not do well in prison.” If he is convicted, I suspect that would very definitely apply to Mr LeGro.