Brett Murphy

@BrettMmurphy

journalist at ProPublica | adjunct at NYU | on Signal: 508.523.5195 | brett.murphy@propublica.org

Joined July 2011

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“Kao told the FBI that the lawmakers, lobbyists and Navatek brass understood these donations were bribes and that the payments were essential to the entire scheme. …

‘I’m not red or blue, I’m green,’ he would tell congressional staffers.” propublica.org/article/fbi-su…

www.propublica.org The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump...

Brett Murphy @BrettMmurphy Sep 14

NEW: A Russian oligarch close to Putin secretly paid hundreds of thousands to bankroll Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish wedding in the Bahamas.

Brett Murphy @BrettMmurphy Feb 7

“During the Jan. 25 storm that brought two feet of snow, private security guards told three dozen homeless people sheltering in South Station that they had to leave.” bostonglobe.com/2026/02/06/bus…

www.bostonglobe.com A homeless man died in the cold outside South Station. That should never happen again. - The Boston... An unwritten rule allowing homeless people to sleep in South Station on frigid nights appears to have ended. They should etch it in stone.

Brett Murphy @BrettMmurphy Jan 7

This summer, we followed Rose, a single mom inside an enormous refugee camp, as she struggled to feed her three sons after the Trump admin cut funding to the World Food Program.

We kept in touch after leaving Africa and just learned how their story ends. propublica.org/article/trump-…

www.propublica.org The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved.

Brett Murphy @BrettMmurphy Dec 17, 2025

For the last in our series about the deadly fallout of USAID cuts in Africa, this is the story of one mother, Rose, whose life became a daily struggle to keep her three sons alive as starvation gripped their refugee camp.