Ex-Washington Post editor Thomas LeGro pleads guilty to child porn possession
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A former Washington Post employee pleaded guilty Friday on a child pornography possession charge, according to U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office in Washington, D.C.
Thomas LeGro, a 48-year-old award-winning journalist who served as The Post’s assistant video director, was arrested last June after the FBI executed a search warrant at his home and seized several devices.
“During execution of the warrant, agents observed what appeared to be broken pieces of a hard drive hidden under the carpet in the basement of the residence,” Pirro’s office wrote. “Examination of LeGro’s laptop revealed a folder containing 11 videos depicting child sexual abuse. These videos showed adult men sexually abusing prepubescent children and forcing them to engage in sexual acts.”
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Jeanine Pirro, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, announced that former Washington Post journalist Thomas LeGro pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography. (Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The investigation was led by the FBI Washington Field Office’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, according to Pirro.
LeGro’s sentencing is scheduled to be announced on September 3, 2026.
At the time of his arrest, a Washington Post spokesperson told Fox News Digital that LeGro had been placed on leave. The newspaper has since severed ties with him.
The Washington Post placed LeGro on leave following his arrest in June 2025. The newspaper has since severed ties with LeGro. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg)
LeGro started working for the Post in 2000 and left in 2006 to work for a time at “PBS NewsHour” before returning to the Post in 2013, according to his LinkedIn page.
LeGro, in particular, was among the Washington Post journalists whose investigative reporting on failed Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, who was accused of sexual harassment by multiple women, many of whom said he was underage at the time, earned the paper a Pulitzer Prize in 2018. Moore denied the allegations mentioned in The Post’s report.
The FBI Washington Field Office’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force is leading the investigation into LeGro, Pirro said. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
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