Kurt Eichenwald

Kurt Eichenwald

Kurt Eichenwald (Kurt Alexander Eichenwald) was born on June 28th, 1961 and is currently 64 years old. Kurt Eichenwald was born in New York City, NY, USA. Eichenwald attended Swarthmore College.

Kurt Eichenwald is a journalist and a New York Times bestselling author, one of which, called The Informant, was adapted into a movie that released in 2009.

Kurt was a senior writer and investigative reporter with The New York Times, Portfolio, and later was a senior writer with Newsweek and a contributing editor with Vanity Fair.

He had been employed by The New York Times since 1985 and he primarily covered Wall Street and corporate topics like accounting scandals, insider trading, and takeovers. However, he also covered terrorism, the Bill Clinton pardon controversy, sexual predators on the Internet, and federal health care policy.

When he joined The New York Times, he was a news clerk for Hedrick Smith, who was the paper’s chief Washington correspondent. When Hedrick started writing his book, Kurt was his research assistant, leaving to become associate editor at The National Journal in Washington, during this time he’d contribute to The New York Times op-ed page, writing these humorous pieces about political issues.

He returned later that same year as a news clerk for the national desk in New York, participating in the paper’s writing program for aspiring reporters.

Kurt’s arrival coincided with the explosion of white-collar criminal investigations in finance. He wrote about the stock trading scandals that involved Ivan Boesky (a speculator) and Michael Milken (junk bond king), and the Treasury markets scandal at Salomon Brothers.

Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story is the full and mind-boggling true story about the crimes, lies, and ineptitude behind the Enron scandal which imperiled a presidency, destroyed a marketplace, and changed Wall Street and Washington forever.

It was a corporate collapsed that seemed to come from out of nowhere. Late in 2001, the Enron Corporation imploded virtually overnight, leaving vast wreckage in its wake, and sparked a criminal investigation lasting years.

Kurt transforms the unbelievable tale of the Enron scandal into this rip-roaring narrative of epic proportions, taking readers behind each closed door (from the Oval Office to the executive suites and from the highest reaches of the Justice Department to the bedrooms and homes of top officers). It’s a story of global reach, from Bombay to London, from Washington to Houston, from Sao Paolo to Munich, laying out the unbelievable scenes that twisted together to create such a shocking true story.

Kurt reveals some never-disclosed details of a story featuring a cast including Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Colin Powell, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gray Davis, Paul O’Neill, Sumner Redstone, Bill Clinton, Rupert Murdoch, and Ken Lay. This is an all-true political and financial thriller of cinematic proportions.

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