Former New Orleans Cop Sentenced in Perjury Case

by A.C. Thompson
ProPublica, April 11, 2012, 5:22 p.m.

A federal judge today sentenced former New Orleans police officer Ronald Mitchell to 20 months in prison for lying about the circumstances of a fatal shooting.

Law Shrouds Details of Congressional Trips Abroad

by Justin Elliott
ProPublica, April 11, 2012, 9:24 a.m.

Members of Congress normally have to disclose where they travel overseas, whom they visit and how much the trip cost — but not under a little-known State Department program that keeps those details and others a secret.

Excerpt: At Goldman Sachs Servicer, ‘Total Disaster’

by Paul Kiel
ProPublica, April 11, 2012, 7:53 a.m.

An employee at a mortgage servicer that was owned by Goldman describes the internal chaos that harmed thousands of homeowners and undermined the government's flagship foreclosure prevention program.