Elon Musk, Wirecard And Biovail/Valeant: How Companies Threaten Whistleblowers

We depend on the financial news media to unmask fraudulent companies and investigate potential frauds, but that all comes at a cost, often to the journalist who does the work. Even in the U.S., journalists sometimes receive death threats for articles they write, but those are the stories that usually don’t make it into the newspaper or online media—until now. Q1 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc During a panel entitled “Fraud and the Media” as part of the “Fraud in the Bull Market” series at University of California, Berkeley, Roddy Boyd of the Southern Investigative  Reporting Foundation, Jesse Eisinger…