Shimon Prokupecz is an Emmy award-winning journalist and CNN crime and justice correspondent based in New York. He principally covers law enforcement and reports on breaking national news stories. Prokupecz was a member of the Emmy-award-winning team that captured the FBI raid on Roger Stone's home in 2019.
Previously based in the network's Washington, D.C. bureau, Prokupecz played an integral role in covering the investigation examining Russian meddling in U.S. elections.
Throughout his time at the network, Prokupecz has reported on the Mueller Investigation, the Justice Department bringing charges against Senator Robert Menendez, the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting, and more.
Prokupecz began his CNN career in 2013 as a justice producer in Washington, D.C., before relocating to the network's New York bureau as a law enforcement producer, where he covered the New York Police Department, FBI, and various law enforcement agencies in the Northeast U.S.
Before joining CNN, Prokupecz worked as a producer at WNBC and as an assignment editor at WABC in New York City. He previously served as a paralegal in the Brooklyn District Attorney's office.
Prokupecz is a graduate of Hunter College from Brooklyn, New York.
