Brooke Williams

Brooke Williams is an investigative reporter based in Boston. Her
data-driven investigations have won national awards and appeared in The New
York Times, the Center for Public Integrity, The San Diego Union-Tribune
and inewsource.org, among other publications. She teaches journalism at Boston
University and currently is working on an investigation of misconduct by federal prosecutors for The Intercept. You can reach her via Signal at 202-615-3551.

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FILE -- The Department of Justice in Washington, May 10, 2018. The Justice Department has asked a court to throw out major elements of the Affordable Care Act, including the individual mandate and the popular provision that protects those with pre-existing medical conditions. (Al Drago/The New York Times)

How the Secretive "Discipline" Process for Federal Prosecutors Buries Misconduct Cases

Brooke Williams, Samata Joshi, Shawn Musgrave

- Oct. 10, 2019

At the Office of Professional Responsibility, complaints against federal prosecutors for misconduct go in, but they never come out.

Federal Death Penalty Prosecutors Accuse One Another of Destroying Evidence and Other Misconduct in Discrimination Lawsuit

Shawn Musgrave, Brooke Williams

- Jul. 18, 2018

Federal prosecutors charged with promoting “consistency and fairness” in death penalty cases have been hurling misconduct accusations against one another.

Rancher Cliven Bundy looks out over his 160 acre ranch in Bunkerville, Nevada May 3, 2014. When the U.S. government declared the Mojave desert tortoise an endangered species in 1989, it effectively marked the cattle ranchers of Nevada's Clark County for extinction. Rancher Cliven Bundy once had neighbors on the range: when the tortoise was listed, there were about 50 cattle-ranching families in the county. Some of them fought court battles to stay, rejecting the idea their cattle posed a danger to the tortoises. But, one by one, they slowly gave up and disappeared. Picture taken May 3, 2014. To match Insight USA-RANCHERS/NEVADA-TORTOISES/ REUTERS/Mike Blake (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW ENVIRONMENT) - GM1EA5V006G01

The Botched Cliven Bundy Case Was Just the Latest Example of Prosecutorial Misconduct in Las Vegas

Brooke Williams, Shawn Musgrave

- Apr. 26, 2018

An ongoing, nationwide examination of federal prosecutors by The Intercept shows the Nevada U.S. Attorney’s Office has a history prosecutorial misconduct.

MESA, AZ - FEBRUARY 28: A Honduran immigration detainee, his feet shackled and shoes laceless as a security precaution, boards a deportation flight to San Pedro Sula, Honduras on February 28, 2013 in Mesa, Arizona. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), operates 4-5 flights per week from Mesa to Central America, deporting hundreds of undocumented immigrants detained in western states of the U.S. With the possibility of federal budget sequestration, Most detainees typically remain in custody for several weeks before they are deported to their home country, while others remain for longer periods while their immigration cases work through the courts. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Federal Prosecutors Are Using Plea Bargains as a Secret Weapon for Deportations