Em Steck - Writer and Researcher, KFILE
Em Steck
Writer and Researcher, KFILE
Em Steck is a writer and researcher of CNN's KFILE -- the leading investigation team for the social, mobile generation.
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NY Republican in critical House race spent huge sums of campaign cash on steakhouses, booze, Ubers and a foreign hostel
Oct 26, 2024
New York Rep. Anthony D’Esposito’s campaign spent tens of thousands of donor dollars at steakhouses and bars, a foreign hostel and on unaccountable payments to a close aide and friend, according to a review of federal filings.
Sell the Steal: How Michael Flynn built a business and MAGA following out of election denialism
Oct 24, 2024
Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn has spent much of the last three years claiming the 2020 election was stolen, turning baseless conspiracy theories into a cottage industry centered around live events, a documentary and political fundraising through dark money groups.
Harris lifted language from Republican attorney in her 2007 congressional testimony
Oct 22, 2024
Kamala Harris lifted language from a Republican attorney when she testified in front of Congress in 2007, a CNN review of her testimony finds.
Conservative activist accuses Harris of plagiarizing passages in co-authored 2009 book
Oct 15, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris has been accused by a conservative activist of plagiarizing passages in a book she co-authored more than a decade ago.
Trump spread conspiracies on mail-in voting for years. Now his campaign is urging people to vote early and by mail
Oct 13, 2024
Donald Trump’s campaign is making a last-minute push to advocate for early and mail-in voting, methods the former president has falsely vilified for years as dangerous and fraudulent.
Walz says he ‘misspoke’ after unearthed newspaper reports undercut claim he was in Hong Kong during Tiananmen Square protests
Oct 2, 2024
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said on Tuesday he “misspoke” when he previously said he’d visited Hong Kong in the spring of 1989 during protests in China’s Tiananmen Square but insisted he “was in Hong Kong and China” during the pro-democracy protests.
Deleted tweets, canceled events, erased endorsements: How Republicans are fleeing from Mark Robinson
Sep 25, 2024
Republicans running for office in North Carolina and around the country are distancing themselves from Mark Robinson, deleting photos of themselves side-by-side with the embattled Republican nominee for governor and removing any reference to his endorsement from their campaign materials.
Angela Alsobrooks improperly claimed tax deductions on DC, Maryland properties, records show
Sep 22, 2024
Angela Alsobrooks, the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Maryland, improperly took advantage of tax breaks she did not qualify for, including one meant for low-income senior citizens, saving thousands of dollars in taxes on two properties she owned in Washington, DC, and in Maryland.
Lewd posts by Trump-backed candidate for NC governor removed from porn forum
Sep 21, 2024
Offensive posts by North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson were removed from the pornographic website Nude Africa on Thursday, hours after a CNN KFile investigation revealed a series of inflammatory comments posted on the forum by the controversial and socially conservative Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina.
‘I’m a black NAZI!’: NC GOP nominee for governor made dozens of disturbing comments on porn forum
Sep 19, 2024
Mark Robinson, the controversial and socially conservative Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, made a series of inflammatory comments on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago, in which he referred to himself as a “black NAZI!” and expressed support for reinstating slavery, a CNN KFile investigation found.
KFile: Harris move to the center on border wall, asylum contradicts her years of progressive immigration positions
Sep 4, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris likes to portray herself as tough on the border and immigration.
GOP nominee to run North Carolina schools advocated pro-Trump military coup in January 6 video
Aug 9, 2024
Michele Morrow, the Republican nominee to run K-12 public education in North Carolina, filmed a video after attending the January 6 riot at the US Capitol urging then-President Donald Trump to put “the Constitution to the side” and use the military to stay in power.
It’s not just ‘cat ladies’: JD Vance has a history of disparaging people without kids
Jul 30, 2024
Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance has a history of making disparaging remarks toward people without children, a CNN KFile review of his comments shows, including fundraising off his now-infamous “childless cat lady” remarks in a series of emails that called Democratic leaders “childless sociopaths” who “don’t have a direct stake in this country.”
Kamala Harris praised ‘defund the police’ movement in June 2020 radio interview
Jul 27, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris voiced support for “defund the police” in a radio interview in June 2020 amidst nationwide protests for police reform, just months before denouncing the movement after she had joined the Biden presidential campaign.
JD Vance repeatedly indicated in 2016 that he believed Donald Trump had committed sexual assault
Jul 23, 2024
Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, repeatedly indicated in 2016 that he believed Donald Trump had committed sexual assault, even suggesting in one TV segment that in a “he said, she said” situation Trump was less credible than one of his accusers.
JD Vance said in 2022 he ‘would like abortion to be illegal nationally’
Jul 17, 2024
Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, said two-and-a-half years ago he was open to a national abortion ban, a stark contrast to comments he made this week where the Ohio senator said he adhered to Trump’s view that abortion should be a state issue.
About
Em Steck is a writer and researcher of CNN’s KFILE – the leading investigation team for the social, mobile generation. KFILE is widely praised as a “scoop team,” known for breaking news by scouring the internet through research, fact checking, and investigative reporting.
Prior to her role at KFILE, Steck covered the Russia investigation in Washington D.C. for CNN, where she helped stake out the special counsel’s office and the US District Court. Prior to that, she worked as a freelancer in content marketing.
Steck received a bachelor’s degree in film and media arts from Temple University and a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University.
Originally from the Philadelphia suburbs, Steck has lived in Philadelphia, London, Chicago and Washington. She currently resides in New York City.
