Overview

• On June 26, FBI agents executed a search warrant at Thomas Pham LeGro’s Washington, D.C., home and seized multiple electronic devices.
• A review of his Washington Post work laptop uncovered a folder containing 11 videos depicting child sexual abuse alongside fractured pieces of a hard drive.
• LeGro was arrested on June 27, formally indicted on federal charges of possession of child pornography, and made his first court appearance that day.
• The Washington Post has placed LeGro on administrative leave pending further court proceedings.
• The FBI’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force is continuing its investigation under the Justice Department’s Project Safe Childhood initiative, and LeGro faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.