Sammy is an investigative reporter based in New York City. In 2025, Sammy reported about police misconduct throughout New York State as part of The New York Times' Local Investigations Fellowship in partnership with New York Focus. (This reporting is based on over 10,000 police disciplinary files regarding around half the police agencies throughout the state Sammy obtained through hundreds of records requests in partnership with MuckRock and with support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism and the Data-Driven Reporting Project.) Over the past few years, Sammy has also written about book bans in New York State prisons, mass detentions in the West Bank as evidenced in press statements on a little-known Israeli military webpage and allegations of sexual misconduct in the New York Philharmonic.
In the past, Sammy's reporting has focused on alleged sexual harassment and misconduct in higher education and the performing arts. His investigative reporting career began in 2018, when he uncovered four decades of sexual assault allegations against a then-department chair, youth program director and former associate dean in his music school as a sophomore reporter on The Michigan Daily, his student newspaper. (This professor was convicted on federal sex crime charges following Sammy's reporting.) Sammy has also reported on alleged misconduct in The Juilliard School, the University of Michigan and the University of Texas at Austin.
In 2021, as an intern at the Investigative Reporting Workshop, Sammy contributed to The Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Sammy is a 2023 graduate of the Columbia Journalism School’s Toni Stabile Investigative Journalism program.
Outside reporting, Sammy is an occasional composer, musical theater writer and playwright. Sammy's music has been recognized by the American Composers Forum, the Foundation for Modern Music and the National Association for Music Education.
Sammy is always looking for new investigative stories. Please get in touch!
