TMZ is making a splash in Washington, D.C., bringing its Hollywood-style paparazzi tactics to politics.

TMZ is turning its celebrity lens on Congress, tracking lawmakers on recess as a nearly six-week Department of Homeland Security shutdown drags on.

Los Angeles County Undersheriff Tim Murakami also jabbed TMZ in a tweet. Bryant's death was the latest in a string of tragic celebrity-death scoops TMZ has landed since it launched in 2005. Belloni added, "If TMZ reports that a celebrity has died in Los Angeles County, it is almost always correct. For whatever reason, and you can read into this, their accuracy rate in Los Angeles is very, very good." But when I saw that it was TMZ reporting a death in Los Angeles County of a very prominent person, I thought it's probably right."