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Jake Bernstein

Jake Bernstein was a business and financial reporter for ProPublica.

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Jake Bernstein was a business reporter for ProPublica. He was featured in the Best Business Writing in 2012 and 2013.

In April 2011, Bernstein and colleague Jesse Eisinger were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series of stories on questionable Wall Street practices that helped make the financial crisis the worst since the Great Depression.

Prior to joining ProPublica, Bernstein worked at The Texas Observer, an investigative biweekly, for six years, and as its executive editor from 2004 to 2008. Bernstein began his career in Central America, where for several years he reported on efforts to end longstanding civil conflicts. He served as a staff writer for the Pasadena [Texas] Citizen and then for the Miami New Times. His work has received numerous state-level and national journalism awards, and The Texas Observer, under his leadership, was named Best Political Magazine of 2005 by Utne Reader. Bernstein is co-author of Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency (2006).

Check Out Failed Banks List

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Five Fingered Failure Friday

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Picower: Charges of Complicity With Madoff "Baseless"

by Jake Bernstein,

Georgia Adds Six More to Failed Bank List

by Jake Bernstein,

A Costly Bank Failure Friday

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Wyoming Bank Fails on Friday

by Jake Bernstein,

Bank Failure Friday Comes Early

by Jake Bernstein,

Five More Banks Failed on Friday

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Madoff Client Jeffry Picower Netted $5 Billion -- Likely More Than Madoff Himself

Madoff investor Jeffrey Picower and his family withdrew at least $5.1 billion in “profit” from Madoff. How did that happen--and where did the money go?

by Jake Bernstein,

Forty Banks Fail in First Half of 2009

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