Rob Kuznia - Reporter, CNN Investigates
Rob Kuznia
Reporter, CNN Investigates
Rob Kuznia is a reporter for CNN Investigates and is based in Minneapolis.
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As fraud scandals erupt in Minnesota on Gov. Tim Walz’s watch, accountability is in short supply
Oct 4, 2024
An independent auditor has faulted the state for lax oversight in nation’s largest case of pandemic fraud. Gov. Tim Walz has pushed back on calls for accountability.
Man detained in apparent assassination attempt on Trump criticized former president on social media
Sep 16, 2024
A man detained Sunday in connection with an apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in Florida went on social media to weigh in on politics.
The pot farm next door: Black market weed operations inundate California suburb, cops say
Aug 31, 2024
A CNN Investigation has found a hot spot for illegal pot farms hiding inside upscale residential homes. The state’s lax weed laws make it hard to stop.
Link found in Texas between rising infant mortality and state’s abortion restrictions
Jun 24, 2024
A new study has drawn a possible link between rising infant mortality in Texas and the state’s abortion restrictions, which, when they took effect in 2021, were the strictest in the nation.
Once nicknamed ‘Murderapolis,’ the city that became the center of the ‘Defund the Police’ movement is grappling with heightened violent crime
Jun 17, 2024
Marnette Gordon was doing laundry at home in Minneapolis one summer morning last year when a call came from her 36-year-old son.
A DNA test turned her life upside down. She’s not alone
Feb 14, 2024
Woman’s horror story reflects nature of US fertility industry
Not MAGA enough: 2020 election skeptic quit his job after facing blowback from angry election deniers
Jan 12, 2024
Not MAGA enough: 2020 election skeptic quit his job after facing blowback from angry election deniers
A deluge of violent messages: How a surge in threats to public officials could disrupt American democracy
Dec 8, 2023
By the time the FBI first showed up to Kevin Patrick Smith’s home in early February, he’d already left dozens of threatening voice messages for US Senator Jon Tester.
Nobody told her about this gun-safety measure in her state. Now, she wonders if it could have saved her daughter’s life
Jul 10, 2023
Vanessa Salgado’s nightmare began on what should have been a regular evening in the spring of last year, while she was waiting for her boyfriend to bring back tacos from a fast-food restaurant.
Bailed out, arrested again: These charities boomed after the murder of George Floyd. They’re under fire for bailing out violent offenders
Mar 21, 2023
In late August of 2021, Minneapolis police responded to a shooting along I-94, where they found a BMW sedan that had crashed into a freeway median. Slumped behind the steering wheel was 38-year-old Luis Damian Martinez Ortiz, who’d suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the chest.
About
Rob Kuznia is a reporter for CNN Investigates and is based in Minneapolis.
His work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Los Angeles Daily News and other outlets.
Prior to joining CNN, Kuznia worked at The Torrance Daily Breeze where he won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting alongside two colleagues for uncovering a web of corruption in a Los Angeles County school district.
He also founded a class at the University of Southern California in which students record on-camera oral histories of mass-shooting survivors.
Kuznia grew up in Grand Forks, N.D. and is a graduate from the University of Minnesota.
