Westport Library To Welcome News Correspondent, Staples Graduate

From Westport Library:The Westport Library is pleased to welcome CBS News Justice and Homeland Security correspondent, and Staples High School graduate, Jeff Pegues to Westport Monday, October 1 from 7 – 8:00 p.m. at Saugatuck Congregational Church.

Pegues will discuss Kompromat: How Russia Undermined American Democracy, which reveals how far the Kremlin poked into voter databases and why it happened. He also investigates the steps taken to shore up election systems in states across the country ahead of the 2018 midterm and indeed the 2020 Presidential election.

Pegues is the justice and homeland security correspondent for CBS News. In this capacity he has participated in closed-door interviews with FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson. In the aftermath of Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014, Pegues orchestrated an interview with the chiefs of police representing four major U.S. cities. In 2015, he covered all angles of the Charleston, South Carolina, church killings, beginning with the manhunt for the suspect and culminating with a special report analyzing President Obama’s eulogy at the funeral of State Senator Clementa Pinckney. Before joining CBS News, Pegues spent ten years at WABC-TV in New York. He is the recipient of three Emmy Awards, numerous Emmy Award nominations, and the Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

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