PERSON: Michael Rothfeld

Reporter

Michael Rothfeld is a reporter on The Wall Street Journal’s financial investigations team. In this role and previously in the Journal’s Law Bureau, Michael has reported and written about trading and Wall Street. He has covered government investigations focused on insider trading and other issues, the aftermath of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, and the white collar defense bar.


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He has been a newspaper reporter since 1995, previously covering politics, government, crime, and many other subjects at newspapers including The Los Angeles Times, Newsday and The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Michael’s articles have led to the reversal of a Pennsylvania veterans’ hospital’s policy of discharging Alzheimer’s patients who couldn’t walk, made changes to New York state assessment law, resulted in the conviction of a minister stealing from the homeless shelters she ran, prompted the ousters of California officials from their positions, and more. Michael attended the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, winning a Pulitzer traveling fellowship which he used to spend a month in Cuba. Other stories have focused on subjects ranging from disputes over parking spaces on Long Island to the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.

Michael lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, Tasha Blaine, and their daughters Annabel and Georgia.

— wsj.com