Gilbert, a consumer-protection lawyer and former executive director of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. They live in the Washington, D.C., area. He is the father of two children, Cassandra Lewis Slattery, an award-winning playwright and author, and Gabriel Gilbert Lewis, a college film student. Career In October 1977, ABC News Vice President Sander Vanocur hired Lewis to be a reportorial producer (off-air reporter) in the newly created Special Reporting Unit, based in Washington, D.C. He provided research, reporting, and production assistance for all of the ABC News national programs. Stories he worked on included attempted presidential assassinations, prospective Supreme Court nominees, FBI misconduct, and Washington corruption scandals such as ABSCAM. He also worked on investigating civil rights murders in Alabama during the 1960s, culminating in a two-part 20/20 television news exposé, narrated by Vanocur. CBS 60 Minutes In early 1984, CBS News, in New York, hired Lewis as an associate producer for its news magazine program 60 Minutes. He was assigned to work with senior correspondent Mike Wallace, and was promoted to full producer. Over the next nearly five years, Lewis associate produced two investigative segments with Wallace and produced eight investigative segments, two of which received Emmy nominations. Many of the reports generated legal threats against the program and CBS News. During the preparation of his last story, "Foreign Agent," both Wallace and 60 Minutes executive producer Don Hewitt forced Lewis to remove from his script the name of former Commerce Secretary Peter G. Peterson, a close personal friend of Hewitt's. Lewis deeply resented the internal censorship and quit 60 Minutes "in the midst of a four-year contract, with a family to support, a mortgage to pay, and virtually no savings." Center for Public Integrity In October 1989, from his home in the Washington D.C. area, Lewis founded the Center for Public Integrity whose novel mission was to pursue investigative reporting based on intensive, long-term projects involving teams of researchers and extensive documents. Within a few months, the Center was incorporated as a tax-exempt nonprofit with Lewis on the board of directors along with journalists Alejandro Benes and Charles Piller. From 1989 to 2004, under Lewis' tenure as executive director, the Center for Public Integrity published roughly 275 investigative reports and 14 books. Three of them, co-authored by Lewis and published by HarperCollins, were finalists for book-of-the-year honors by Investigative Reporters and Editors: The Buying of the President