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In March, we reported that Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr sold off up to $1.7 million of stock after receiving early classified intelligence briefings on the serious health threats of COVID-19. Simultaneously, Burr was reassuring the public that the government was prepared to deal with the health crisis. In May, FBI agents served a search warrant to Burr as part of an investigation of his stock trades. The next day, Burr resigned as chairman.

In July, we reported on a Michigan judge who sent a Black teen, Grace, to juvenile detention, ruling that she had violated her parole by not doing her online coursework during the COVID-19 shutdown. Two and a half weeks after our story, the Michigan Court of Appeals overturned Judge Mary Ellen Brennan’s ruling, and ordered Grace’s immediate release after over two months in jail.

In August, ProPublica and the Anchorage Daily News published an investigation revealing that Alaska Attorney General Kevin Clarkson sent hundreds of inappropriate text messages to a younger state employee. At the time of our reporting, Clarkson was on a month-long leave of absence without pay, but the state had never told the public he was gone, or why. Hours after we published our story, which included texts obtained by ProPublica and the Daily News, Clarkson resigned as attorney general.

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