Jeffrey Scott Shapiro (born April 27, 1973) is a practicing American attorney and nationally recognized investigative journalist who has reported on several high-profile criminal and political cases, often defending people who become targets of the tabloid media.
[9][10] Shapiro's change of heart came at a time when tabloids were immersed in controversy due to the mysterious death of Diana, Princess of Wales, who died during a paparazzi chase in Paris on August 31, 1997.
[18] That same year the Vail Daily summarized Shapiro's change of heart, reporting that "he left the tabloid world in a blaze of glory handing the Globe to the FBI on a silver platter.
His key political investigations uncovered new DNA evidence in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, revealed secret recordings of Pentagon officials discussing the 2011 military intervention in Libya, shined a light on the Kremlin's poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and brought attention to the United States Air Force's use of Russian rocket engines.
[34] Shortly after the Twin Towers attack, he confirmed a 9/11 urban legend about a Brooklyn high school under FBI investigation for reportedly predicting the collapse of the World Trade Center.
Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter and Daily Telegraph commentator Mark Steyn confirmed the story, but Snopes classified the incident and a similar episode reported in the Houston Chronicle as "undetermined.