23 Facts About Kurt Eichenwald

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Kurt Alexander Eichenwald was born on June 28,1961 and is an American journalist and a New York Times bestselling author of five books, one of which, The Informant, was made into a motion picture in 2009.

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Kurt Eichenwald contacted the United States Department of Health and Human Services and fought his way back into school, an experience that he has credited with giving him the willingness to take on institutions in his muckraking reporting.

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Kurt Eichenwald graduated with his class in 1983, receiving a degree in political science, with distinction.

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When Smith began writing his book The Power Game, Kurt Eichenwald became his research assistant, leaving in 1986 to become associate editor at The National Journal in Washington.

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Kurt Eichenwald returned to The New York Times later in 1986 as a news clerk for the national desk in New York, participating in the paper's writing program for aspiring reporters.

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Kurt Eichenwald wrote about the stock trading scandals involving speculator Ivan Boesky and junk bond king Michael Milken, as well as the Treasury markets scandal at Salomon Brothers.

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Kurt Eichenwald wrote a multi-part series for The New York Times, exposing significant deficiencies in the American business of providing kidney dialysis treatments.

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8.

Kurt Eichenwald received his second Polk award, along with his colleagues, for this work.

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In 1998, Kurt Eichenwald was attached to The New York Times' senior reporter program.

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Kurt Eichenwald teamed with another of the newspaper's reporters, Gina Kolata, for a multi-year investigation into how business interests affect the nation's system for medical research.

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Kurt Eichenwald claimed in the testimony that he had stumbled across Berry while reporting on documents that proved to be fraudulent, leaving him believing there was no story but fearful there was a child in danger.

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Weeks after that effort had been completed, during which Kurt Eichenwald met Berry, Berry contacted him and said he wanted to reveal everything he knew about the online child pornography business for a news article in hopes of "bringing down" the illicit enterprise.

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In 2007 it came to light that Kurt Eichenwald had given Berry an undisclosed $2,000 before writing the reports; The New York Times published a note stating that "the check should have been disclosed to editors and readers".

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Kurt Eichenwald testified that when Berry offered to become a source for a news article, he told the young man that he could not begin any reporting until the financial conflict was resolved by Berry's returning the money to him from a lawful source of funds.

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Kurt Eichenwald testified that Berry obtained a loan from his grandmother which he used to repay him in July 2005, at which point the reporting began.

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Kurt Eichenwald was recruited by Jim Impoco, a former New York Times editor and managing editor of the new Portfolio.

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In 2012, Kurt Eichenwald joined Vanity Fair as a contributing editor where he wrote business articles for the magazine and an online column focusing on government and politics.

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Kurt Eichenwald's reporting on Prudential led to his first book, Serpent on the Rock, which focused primarily on the limited partnership scandal at Prudential Securities, which is alleged to have defrauded 340,000 people out of eight billion dollars.

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The book is a memoir about medical struggles that almost killed Kurt Eichenwald when he was a young man.

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Kurt Eichenwald was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2000, along with his New York Times colleague Gina Kolata, for an investigation of medical clinical trials.

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Kurt Eichenwald was awarded a journalism prize from the Epilepsy Foundation of America for his 1987 article.

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In late 2016 after making critical remarks about Donald Trump, Kurt Eichenwald was intentionally sent epileptogenic GIFs over Twitter.

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In September 2020, Kurt Eichenwald won the lawsuit, though the criminal trial is still pending.