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Nick Schwellenbach

Charlottesville
As seen in: Project On Government Oversight, HuffPost, The Washington Post, TIME, Yahoo News, POLITICO, Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, Chron, The Intercept, Mother Jones and
Covers:  DOJ, EPA, DHS, Interior Dept, Treasury, corruption/excessive corporate influence/ethics, whistleblowers, broken oversight offices, and much more involving the federal government
Doesn't Cover: Consumer finance, state and local-level issues unless the feds are significantly involved and there's corruption/excessive corporate influence
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Nick Schwellenbach’s 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.