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Robert Faturechi

Best Article Crime Politics

This Treasury Official Is Running the Bailout. It’s Been Great for His Family.

Deputy Treasury Secretary Justin Muzinich has an increasingly prominent role. He still has ties to his family’s investment firm, which is a major beneficiary of the Treasury’s bailout actions.

Justin Elliott, Lydia DePillis, Robert Faturechi ProPublica Jun 2020 20min Permalink

Faulty Equipment, Lapsed Training, Repeated Warnings: How a Preventable Disaster Killed Six Marines

Marine commanders did not act on dozens of pleas for additional manpower, machinery and time. When a training exercise ended in death, leadership blamed the very men they had neglected.

Robert Faturechi, Megan Rose, T. Christian Miller ProPublica Dec 2019 40min Permalink

Collision Course

The Navy installed touch-screen steering systems to save money. Ten sailors paid with their lives.

T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose, Robert Faturechi, Agnes Chang ProPublica Dec 2019 25min Permalink

World

Trump Keeps Talking About the Last Military Standoff With Iran — Here’s What Really Happened

“The Farsi Island mission was a gross failure, involving issues that have plagued the Navy in recent years: inadequate training, poor leadership, and a disinclination to heed the warnings of its men and women about the true extent of its vulnerabilities.”

Megan Rose, Robert Faturechi, T. Christian Miller ProPublica Jun 2019 30min Permalink

Best Article

Death and Valor on an American Warship Doomed by its Own Navy

An investigation into the crash of the USS Fitzgerald.

T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose, Robert Faturechi ProPublica Feb 2019 1h10min Permalink