Overview

• The U.S. Department of Justice charged Thomas Pham LeGro on June 27 following an FBI investigation into suspected child pornography possession.
• Federal agents executed a search warrant at LeGro’s Northern Virginia home on June 26, seizing multiple electronic devices and noting broken hard drive fragments.
• A forensic review of his Washington Post work laptop uncovered a folder with 11 videos depicting child sexual abuse material.
• LeGro appeared before a federal judge in Washington, D.C., and was ordered detained pending a bail hearing scheduled for next week.
• The Washington Post has placed LeGro on administrative leave and the FBI’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force continues its investigation as he faces up to 20 years in prison.