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Wayne Barrett in 2011 at his home in Brooklyn. There is, he once said, "no other job where you get paid to tell the truth."
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Wayne Barrett
Died on January 19, 2017 at age 71
In 37 years as a muckraking investigative reporter at The Village Voice, Mr. Barrett took on New York’s builders, landlords and politicians, among them Donald J. Trump and Rudolph W. Giuliani.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.