Episode 237: Sheelah Kolhatkar

Published: March 22, 2017, 6:15 p.m.

b'Sheelah Kolhatkar is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street.\\n\\n \\u201cSuddenly the financial crisis happened and all this stuff that had been hidden from view came out into the open. It was like, \\u2018Oh, this was actually all kind of a big fa\\xe7ade.\\u2019 And there was all this fraud and stealing and manipulation and corruption, and all these other things going on underneath the whole shiny rock star surface. And that really also demonstrated to people how connected business stories, or anything to do with money, are to everything else going on. I mean, really almost everything that happens in our world, if you trace it back to its source, it\\u2019s money at the root of it.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to MailChimp, Blue Apron, and Stamps.com for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n@sheelahk\\nsheelahkolhatkar.com\\nKolhatkar on Longform\\n[00:15] SAIC Application\\n[00:30] Pregnant Pause\\n[01:15] Missing Richard Simmons\\n[04:00] Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street (Random House \\u2022 2017)\\n[07:30] Kolhatkar\\u2019s Observer archive\\n[09:15] "Suzy Wetlaufer Preparing To Be \'Neutron Jackie\'" (Observer \\u2022 Apr 2004)\\n[15:00] "Hedge Funds Are for Suckers" (Bloomberg \\u2022 Jul 2013)\\n[17:45] Kolhatkar\\u2019s Time archive\\n[18:00] "Poor Ruth" (New York \\u2022 Jul 2009)\\n[26:30] "When the Feds Went After the Hedge-Fund Legend Steven A. Cohen" (New Yorker \\u2022 Jan 2017)\\n[27:00] "Cheating, Incorporated" (Bloomberg \\u2022 Feb 2011)\\n[29:15] "The $40-Million Elbow" (Nick Paumgarten \\u2022 New Yorker \\u2022 Oct 2006)\\n[35:15] "On the Trail of SAC Capital\\u2019s Steven Cohen" (Bloomberg \\u2022 Jan 2013)\\n[53:45] To Catch a Trader\\n[58:15] "Trump\\u2019s Wolves of Wall Street" (New Yorker \\u2022 Dec 2016)\\n[59:45] "Juno Takes on Uber" (New Yorker \\u2022 Oct 2016)\\n[59:45] "Financiers Fight Over the American Dream" (New Yorker \\u2022 Mar 2017)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'