I’m a reporter for the Associated Press covering law enforcement and courts. My current work includes reporting on President Donald Trump’s civil and criminal cases and an ongoing investigation into the federal prison system. This is my website. Here you’ll find clips of stories I’ve written and reported, plus TV and radio appearances, a podcast and more. Have a story? Get in touch.
Essays
Nov. 3, 2025: ‘Out of a horror movie’: George Banks killed 13 in 1982 rampage
June 24, 2014: Rep. Charles Rangel’s final victory lap: Results then nostalgia
Jan. 17, 2025: Finding closure at the end of Donald Trump‘s hush money case
Honors
Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Breaking News Reporting, 2025
Member of Associated Press team recognized for reporting on the assassination attempt on then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania
Oliver S. Gramling Journalism Award winner, 2023
Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting finalist, 2023
Recent work
Reporting on New Jersey gubernatorial race: I reported live from from Republican candidate Jack Ciattarelli watch party for AP’s wall-to-wall streaming election night coverage, updating viewers on the important bellwether race and the mood inside the room as GOP gubernatorial candidates went 0-for-2.
Reporting on Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sentencing: I reported live for AP’s wall-to-wall streaming coverage of the hip-hop mogul’s October 2025 sentencing to four years and two months in prison for prostitution-related offenses.
Reporting on Donald Trump’s criminal trial and felony conviction: I’ve led AP’s coverage of the former president’s New York hush money case from the start of the investigation to the guilty verdict that made him the first ex-commander in chief convicted of a crime. A few highlights:
• May 31, 2024: Interview: Trump’s attorney was ‘shocked’ the former president took the verdict with ‘solemnness’
• May 30, 2024: Guilty: Trump becomes first former US president convicted of felony crimes
• May 30, 2024: Inside the courtroom as Donald Trump learned he had been convicted
• May 13, 2024: Star witness Michael Cohen says Trump was intimately involved in all aspects of hush money scheme
• May 7, 2024: Inside the courtroom where Trump was forced to listen to Stormy Daniels
Investigating federal prisons: My ongoing investigation with AP’s Mike Balsamo uncovers deep, previously unreported flaws within the federal Bureau of Prisons, the Justice Department’s largest law enforcement agency, whose secrets have long been hidden within its walls and barbed-wire fences.
• Dec. 9, 2022: AP Investigation: Prison boss beat inmates, climbed ranks
• May 5, 2022: Abuse-clouded prison gets attention, but will things change?
• Feb. 24, 2022: Whistleblowers say they’re bullied for exposing prison abuse
• Feb. 6, 2022: AP investigation: Women’s prison fostered culture of abuse
» Read the full series
Recent Scoops
April 18, 2025: AP first to confirm death toll in deadly Hudson River helicopter crash
Sept. 16, 2024: AP reveals that the man arrested in assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Florida wrote a book urging Iran to assassinate the ex-president.
May 7, 2024: Attorney for Stormy Daniels tells AP the porn actor is expected to appear as a witness in Trump’s hush money trial on Tuesday.
April 15, 2024: Bureau of Prisons plans to close California women’s prison after AP reporting exposed rampant staff-on-inmate sexual abuse.
Nov. 24, 2023: Ex-police officer Derek Chauvin, convicted of killing George Floyd, has been stabbed in federal prison, AP source says.
July 10, 2023: AP sources: Larry Nassar stabbed multiple times in altercation at federal prison in Florida, now in stable condition.
June 11, 2023: AP sources: Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, who carried out 17-year bombing campaign, died by suicide in prison.
June 2, 2023: New details of Jeffrey Epstein’s death and the frantic aftermath revealed in records obtained by AP.
TV/Video Appearances
May 16, 2025: CBC News – Sean (Diddy) Combs’ ex-girlfriend continues testimony at criminal trial
May 5, 2025: Sean Combs trial: Jury selection begins. The CBC’s Aarti Pole talks with the AP’s Michael Sisak
More: AP Newsroom
Recent Features/Profiles
Feb. 19, 2025: Meet Dale E. Ho, the second-year judge weighing the future of NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption case
Oct. 1, 2023: Who is Arthur Engoron? Judge weighing future of Donald Trump empire is Ivy League-educated ex-cabbie
Aug. 17, 2023: The fall of Rudy Giuliani: How ‘America’s mayor’ tied his fate to Donald Trump and got indicted
Michael Sisak 