While working for The Toledo Blade, he received numerous state and national awards for his investigative stories into organized crime, clerical sexual abuse and white-collar fraud.
[4] He was a Pulitzer finalist for meritorious Public Service in 2012 for a series exposing wretched and deadly conditions in Florida's assisted living facilities.
[5] He worked two years at The Washington Post, and returned in 2014 to The Miami Herald, where he was a Pulitzer finalist for Local Reporting in 2016 for stories that exposed a corrupt police sting operation that laundered $71.5 million for drug cartels—kept millions in profits—but did not make a single arrest.
[6] He was also a Pulitzer finalist for International Reporting in 2021 for his work for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and BuzzFeed News on the FinCEN Files investigation, which revealed the role of big banks in allowing criminal organizations to move billions of dollars through the financial institutions.
His reporting has been featured in three major documentaries (in which he also appeared), including Twist of Faith, an Academy Award-nominated feature documentary in 2004 about the clerical abuse crisis in Ohio, a PBS American Experience film in 2015 about William Alexander Morgan, an American who led his own fighting unit in the Cuban Revolution, and From Russia With Lev, a 2024 film that chronicles the Ukraine backchannel campaign that resulted in the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump in 2019.