Shawn Boburg

Washington, D.C.

Investigative reporter

Education: Williams College, BA in history

Shawn Boburg joined The Washington Post in 2015. He previously worked at the Record in northern New Jersey from 2006 to 2015 and at the Eagle-Tribune in Massachusetts from 2001 to 2006.
Latest from Shawn Boburg

Clarence Thomas has for years claimed income from a defunct real estate firm

The misstatements are part of a pattern that has raised questions about how the justice views his obligation to report details about his finances to the public.

April 16, 2023

Clarence Thomas has reported receiving only two gifts since 2004

Eighteen years ago, the Los Angeles Times detailed how Thomas had reported receiving thousands of dollars’ worth of gifts — far more than other justices on the Supreme Court at the time. That story appears to have marked a turning point for Thomas’s public disclosure of gifts.

April 7, 2023

Activist group led by Ginni Thomas received nearly $600,000 in anonymous donations

Funding for the group led by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's wife was channeled through a right-wing think tank, an arrangement that effectively shielded key operational details from public view, a Post investigation found.

March 28, 2023

The gun that divides a nation

The AR-15 wasn’t supposed to be a best-seller. It's the result of a dramatic shift in American gun culture fueled by the firearms industry and its allies.

March 27, 2023

Leaked files reveal reputation-management firm’s deceptive tactics

Forbidden Stories consortium: Bogus copyright claims, search engine manipulation among disinformation tactics used by the Spain based reputation-management firm

February 17, 2023

Gunmaker’s Super Bowl stunt sheds light on marketing of ‘America’s rifle’

Sales soared in the past decade at Daniel Defense, the maker of the gun used in the Uvalde shooting, as it employed aggressive marketing tactics to sell AR-style rifles.

July 25, 2022

Suspect confessed to mass shooting, considered 2nd attack, authorities say

The alleged gunman drove to Wisconsin and thought about opening fire on another July 4 gathering, authorities said.

July 6, 2022

Gunman bought two rifles, hundreds of rounds in days before massacre

Relatives and classmates of the 18-year-old shooter described a fraught relationship with his mother and a troubling pattern of acting out.

May 25, 2022

Oracle’s Larry Ellison joined Nov. 2020 call about contesting Trump’s loss

The billionaire GOP donor, the biggest backer of Elon Musk’s attempted Twitter takeover, participated along with Fox’s Sean Hannity and Sen. Lindsey Graham, according to court filings and a participant.

May 20, 2022

‘I lied to them for months’: Buffalo shooting suspect kept plans from family, he wrote

For months, as 18-year-old Payton Gendron formulated a plan to kill dozens of Black people in Buffalo, he worked to keep his racist plot a secret from his family, according to Gendron’s postings online.

May 17, 2022