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Nick Schwellenbach

Nick Schwellenbach

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Senior Investigator, Project On Government Oversight

Charlottesville

Biography

An investigative journalist at the Project On Government Oversight with bylines in The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Yahoo News, Mother Jones, TIME Magazine, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and elsewhere. Center for Public Integrity alum. Former spokesperson at the U.S. Office of Special Counsel. Nick received his B.A. in history from the University of Texas-Austin and his M.A. in journalism from American University. Nick’s work for POGO on excessive secrecy covering up serious misconduct by Justice Department attorneys won the Society of Professional Journalists-D.C. Chapter’s Robert D.G. Lewis Watchdog Award in 2015, its highest prize. He has led investigations into the revolving door at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), whistleblower retaliation within the Department of Homeland Security, mismanagement of the Joint Strike Fighter F-35 program, and many other topics. Nick's investigative coverage of labor and sex trafficking by U.S. government contractors overseas led to a 2012 executive order aimed at preventing these abuses.

Final Covers

and much more involving the federal government, Treasury whistleblowers, broken oversight offices EPA, corruption/excessive corporate influence/ethics Interior Dept, DHSDOJ

Doesn’t Cover

Consumer finance, state and local-level issues unless the feds are significantly involved and there's corruption/excessive corporate influence

Journalist Type

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Content

Total articles 125

  • Road to Reprisal: U.S. Agency Fired Congo Whistleblower | Accountability Counsel

    By Nick Schwellenbach · Accountability Counsel Blog

    May. 06, 2024

  • The Dubious, Racially Charged Flood Project Biden Is Resurrecting in Mississippi

    By Nick Schwellenbach · The New Republic

    Jan. 05, 2024

  • DHS’s Secret Reports On Ice Detention

    By Freddy Martinez, Nick Schwellenbach · Popular Resistance

    Aug. 22, 2023

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Company Info

Project On Government Oversight

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

+1 202-347-1122

Founded: 1981