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Jeffrey Scott Shapiro

jshapiro@washingtontimes.com

Jeffrey Scott Shapiro is an investigative journalist and former Washington, D.C. prosecutor who served as a White House appointed senior official at the U.S. Office of Cuba Broadcasting from 2017-2021. Mr. Shapiro has investigated and written about domestic and international criminal cases, conflicts and legality with an emphasis on Cuban and Russian affairs. He is now the assistant commentary editor for The Washington Times. He can be reached at jshapiro@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Jeffrey Scott Shapiro

Supreme Court, October 2010 - Back row (left to right): Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen G. Breyer, Samuel A. Alito, and Elena Kagan. Front row (left to right): Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, Chief Justice John Roberts, Anthony Kennedy, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Obama immigration action headed for the courts

The battle over Barack Obama’s immigration overhaul is likely headed to the courts, but legal scholars say the president's specific tactics in acting unilaterally may be difficult to overturn.

November 20, 2014
Edward Blum, director of the Project on Fair Representation, speaks to reporters during a news conference in Washington, Monday, Nov. 17, 2014, announcing the filing of two lawsuits challenging the alleged racial preference admissions policies of Harvard and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Harvard, UNC sued over race-based admissions policies

The Alexandria legal advocacy group that sued Harvard University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill this week for capping the number of Asian-Americans they admit says it hopes to file more lawsuits against other colleges for race-based admissions policies in the coming days.

November 18, 2014
A Virgin Galactic space tourism rocket exploded and crashed in California Saturday, killing a pilot aboard and seriously injuring another while scattering wreckage in the Mojave Desert, witnesses and officials said. (Associated Press)

Virgin Galactic crash probe focuses on descent system

Federal investigators probing Friday's fatal crash of a Virgin Galactic private space tourism craft say they now suspect the rocket plane's descent system deployed prematurely, sending the ship's tail into a rise and causing the craft to "disintegrate."

November 3, 2014
The Cygnus cargo ship held 5,000 pounds of experiments and equipment. One-third of the capsule's contents involved research, including experiments by schoolchildren. (Eastern Shore News via Associated Press)

Rocket contracted by NASA explodes after Virginia launch

An unmanned NASA-contracted rocket powered by a Soviet-era Russian rocket engine exploded Tuesday night along the northeastern Virginia coast, flaring into a massive fireball shortly after it launched from Wallops Flight Facility.

October 28, 2014
Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Ex-political prisoner: Putin’s regime destined to fall

The billionaire Russian oil tycoon who lost his assets and freedom after defying Vladimir Putin says the Kremlin has co-opted the country's legal system and hijacked its armed forces to benefit a plutocratic regime that is destined for collapse.

October 16, 2014
Nazi Auschwitz concentration camp (AP Photo)

Holocaust denial video praised in letters from lawmakers’ offices

A Holocaust denial video that suggested Jews were not exterminated by gas chambers at the Nazi Auschwitz concentration camp mysteriously received flattering praise in letters from the offices of one U.S. representative, a Maine state representative and a high-ranking policy adviser to the president of Hungary who now works for NATO.

October 13, 2014
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker addresses the Republican National Committee summer meetings in Chicago on Aug. 8, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**

SHAPIRO: Walker support group seeks to uphold prosecution injunction

Lawyers for a special interest group on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to uphold an injunction that blocks a Wisconsin prosecutor from reviving an investigation that targeted conservative organizations accused of illegally coordinating with Gov. Scott Walker's 2011-2012 campaign.

September 10, 2014
High-profile American political consultants linked to Democrats and later hired by politicians in Nigeria include Lanny Davis of Levick. (Associated Press)

U.S. public relations, consulting firms find political gold in Nigeria

For decades, Americans have sought oil riches in Nigeria. But now the rise of a new opposition party, a competitive election in 2015 and a serious terrorism threat in that African nation have created political gold for U.S. public relations and election-consulting firms.

August 13, 2014
Alexander Litvinenko Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

SHAPIRO: Alexander Litvinenko, a tragic Russian patriot

Nearly eight years ago, the news shocked the world that Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian FSB officer who defected to Britain in 2000, died after having been poisoned while having tea with three other retired Russian intelligence agents in a luxury London hotel.

August 6, 2014
The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-13M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Moscow: Continue U.S. cooperation in space

Moscow wants to work with Washington to further space exploration despite a recent NASA memo noting the crisis in Ukraine has nearly severed prospects for partnership, Russian officials say.

July 20, 2014
Federal prosecutors won a new 18-count indictment against accused Benghazi attacker Ahmed Abu Khatallah on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2014. (Associated Press)

ANALYSIS: Benghazi prosecution faces legal rights minefield

As the case against Benghazi suspect Ahmed Abu Khatalla proceeds, legal experts say Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights do not always apply to foreign nationals when their property is searched or they are interrogated in foreign lands.

July 2, 2014