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Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter. Now a Senior Reporter at ProPublica in New York, used to be at the Chicago Tribune.
Feb 6, 2020 18 tweets 12 min read
THREAD: Top booster and car seat manufacturer @Evenflobaby’s top booster seat engineer admitted in a deposition if real children moved the way they did in the company’s side-impact tests, they could suffer catastrophic head, neck and spinal injuries — or die. So, how do we know that Evenflo, the maker of the “Big Kid” booster seat, put profits over child safety?

@d_porat & I uncovered a series of shocking depositions and internal documents from Evenflo about its boosters.
Dec 23, 2019 8 tweets 3 min read
1/When I wrote about people killed by drivers delivering Amazon packages, a reader sent me this tip: Google Joy Covey. 2/Joy Covey was Amazon’s first CFO. She died in a 2013 cycling crash when a delivery van turned left in front of her. The driver, a subcontractor, testified the ‘vast majority’ of his deliveries were for Amazon. Covey was only 50 and had an 8 year-old son.