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January 23, 2019

Crime

A Private Investigator Wanted to Prove His Clients Innocent. Were His Methods His Own Undoing?

In the poorest congressional district in the country, where thousands of people are arrested each year, one former cop with a complicated past made high-profile cases fall apart by insisting that the ends justified his means.

Saki Knafo New York Times Magazine Jan 2019 35min Permalink