Pervaiz Shallwani is a Senior Editor overseeing investigations and enterprise stories in New York.

Pervaiz works alongside a law-enforcement team that covers local, state and federal law-enforcement agencies that blanket the New York metropolitan area including the US Attorney's office in both Manhattan and Brooklyn, the FBI, NYPD and district attorneys in the five boroughs.

Pervaiz's career has toggled the worlds of law enforcement and food. Prior to joining CNN in 2019, Pervaiz was a Senior Editor and Writer at The Daily Beast where he was the first to report the arrest of Jeffrey Epstein by federal authorities, and was part of a team nominated for awards for its Epstein coverage. He has also worked as a food writer, restaurant critic and TV show host at Newsday, where his web series "Feed Me" won Emmy and IACP awards, and a law-enforcement reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where he worked on teams that covered the police-involved deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. and Eric Garner on Staten Island, the Boston Bombings and the Sandy Hook shootings.

Pervaiz began his career as a reporter at The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa. He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and a culinary arts degree from the French Culinary Institute (now the International Culinary Center) in Manhattan. You can find him on Twitter and Instagram: @pervaizistan.