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E-mail Marisa Taylor at mtaylor@mcclatchydc.com

Marisa Taylor, an investigative reporter, has more than 15 years of daily newspaper experience in Washington, California, Virginia, Texas and Mexico.

She has covered federal courts and agencies, crime and politics. Taylor started her career as a reporter in Mexico City and speaks Spanish.

Taylor was part of a team of McClatchy reporters that won the National Press Club's 2011 Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence for a series on Afghanistan. The series detailed how corruption and mismanagement marred U.S. efforts to rebuild Afghanistan.

In 2008, she, along with Greg Gordon and Margaret Talev, won a McClatchy "President’s Award’" and Scripps Howard's Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for Washington reporting for exposing the Bush administration's politicization of the Justice Department.

Marisa Taylor's Latest Story

Polygraph world’s close ties spark accusations of favoritism

By Marisa Taylor | McClatchy Washington Bureau

When polygrapher Walt Goodson began moonlighting for a private company, he didn’t think the law enforcement agency he worked for would care. After all, his supervisor had worked for his company’s competitor and had approved his outside job. But after investigators found Goodson’s relationship with the manufacturer to be improper partly because of his involvement in a bid, Goodson agreed it looked bad. Public employees are supposed to avoid conflicts of interest because they could give a company an unfair advantage over competitors or create a greater expense for the public agency that’s buying a product. Even so, Goodson is one of 14 current or former law enforcement officers across the country who’ve been described by Lafayette Instrument Co. Inc. as dealers over the last six years. » read more

Posted on Mon, May 20, 2013

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