Robert Friedman

@rfriedman305

Senior Editor, Investigations, at Bloomberg News

New York

Joined February 2010

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Robert Friedman@rfriedman305 · Jan 18

New crypto mining by @ZekeFaux and @_ToddGillespie Cantor Fitzgerald is the linchpin of the go-to digital currency of the criminal world. Its CEO is poised to become Commerce secretary bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @bpolitics

rfriedman305's tweet card. Cantor Fitzgerald holds assets for Tether, the stablecoin used by drug traffickers, terrorists and scammers to move money around the world.

Robert Friedman@rfriedman305 · May 5

A former TV comedy writer. Thousands of fake jobs. And health-care plans that don't cover much of anything. This just out from @zachmider and @ZekeFaux bloomberg.com/features/2025-… via @business

rfriedman305's tweet card. How a former TV comedy writer’s fake-job loophole could blow up Obamacare.

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Robert Friedman@rfriedman305 · Apr 24

Congrats to @livcarville and @cecianasta on winning the John Bartlow Martin Award for public interest magazine journalism for their @BW articles about online hazards for teens. 👋👋👋medill.northwestern.edu/news/2025/bloo… via @MedillSchool

rfriedman305's tweet card. Olivia Carville and Cecilia D’Anastasio, reporters at Bloomberg Businessweek, are the recipients of the 2025 John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism from Northwestern...

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Robert Friedman@rfriedman305 · Apr 17

A French billionaire, an archipelago of rubber plantations and sex-for-work allegations. Kudos to @SheridanAsia, @gaspardsebag and @BenoitBerthelot for this investigation. bloomberg.com/features/2025-… via @business

rfriedman305's tweet card. Hubert Fabri and Vincent Bolloré own plantations accused of land appropriation and labor abuses. Their company says it has taken steps to improve matters, but a trip to West Africa shows sexual...

Robert Friedman@rfriedman305 · Feb 17

👋👋👋Proud of @bw reporters @livcarville and @cecianasta for winning George Polk award for technology reporting for stories about how companies fail to protect children online. LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES 2024 GEORGE POLK AWARDS IN JOURNALISM prn.to/4gFr2Hr

rfriedman305's tweet card. /PRNewswire/ -- Incisive reports from four areas of bloody conflict — Sudan, the Russian-Ukraine war zone, Israel's West Bank and Haiti — are among 15 winners...

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Robert Friedman@rfriedman305 · Jan 16

Proud of this investigation by @GavinFinchBBG @KendallTTaggart @davidkski The World Bank invested billions of dollars in private hospitals from Africa to Asia to improve healthcare. But stories of abuses have piled up bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @business

rfriedman305's tweet card. Billions of taxpayer dollars invested in for-profit facilities from Africa to Asia were supposed to improve access to healthcare. But stories of abuses have piled up.

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Robert Friedman@rfriedman305 · Oct 14

Proud of @livcarville. Second time in three years!

OOlivia Carville@livcarville · Oct 14

🙏🏻 Humbled, honored — and happy that online child safety is being recognized as a topic we all need to be talking about. Thank you, @WertPrize, @BW and especially @rfriedman305, a once-in-a-career kind of editor

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Robert Friedman@rfriedman305 · Oct 11

Good news, Bad Medicine. Honored to have been part of this global reporting effort with @zachmider, @KendallTTaggart, @petermrobison, @flynnmcroberts, @sw_gs, @JoofMS and many more.

GGerald Loeb Awards@LoebAwards · Oct 11

.@uclaanderson Presents The 2024 Loeb Award For The Explanatory Category To: “BAD MEDICINE” FROM: @business #LoebAwards

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Robert Friedman@rfriedman305 · Oct 2

How did chips made by US companies get inside a Russian missile that killed a 6-year-old girl in Ukraine? Bloomberg's @StephaniBaker and @DarynaKrasno do the autopsy for @BW. Powerful. bloomberg.com/features/2024-… via @BW

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Robert Friedman@rfriedman305 · Aug 22

We've been writing about predatory lender Jonathan Braun for years. This happened yesterday: Jonathan Braun, the loan shark freed from prison by Trump, was arrested on charges of punching his wife and his 75-year-old father-in-law bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @business

rfriedman305's tweet card. Jonathan Braun, the loan shark freed from prison by former President Donald Trump, was arrested on charges of punching his wife and his 75-year-old father-in-law.

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Robert Friedman@rfriedman305 · Aug 19

Featured in this @CJR piece about 1968 and 2024, along with Dan Rather, Marvin Kalb and Earl Caldwell. cjr.org/first_person/1… via @cjr

rfriedman305's tweet card. Reflections on a year of political upheaval—from journalists who were there

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Robert Friedman@rfriedman305 · Aug 12

Bloomberg's @livcarville has been investigating child safety in the digital world for the past two years, reporting on how social media platforms are harming a generation of kids. We put all her stories in one place: bloomberg.com/features/socia… via @BW

rfriedman305's tweet card. Investigating the impact of platforms on child safety with Olivia Carville.

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Robert Friedman@rfriedman305 · Jul 23, 2024

Latest from⭐️reporters @livcarville and @cecianasta about predators lurking on popular gaming platform Roblox. Proud to have worked with them on this disturbing @BW investigation. bloomberg.com/features/2024-… via @BW

rfriedman305's tweet card. The internet’s biggest recreation zone for kids is struggling to keep predators off its platform.

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Robert Friedman@rfriedman305 · May 29, 2024

⁦Why are Customs agents expelling Chinese graduate students with valid visas?⁦ My colleague ⁦@SheridanAsia⁩ documented more than 20 cases in recent months in what she describes as a new, secretive China Initiative. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

rfriedman305's tweet card. Customs agents at US airports have barred entry to at least 20 students and scholars with valid visas since November in ‘more insidious’ version of disbanded China Initiative.

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Robert Friedman@rfriedman305 · May 16, 2024

Hats off to my colleagues for winning the Data Journalism of the Year Award from the Wincott Foundation for their fabulous work on how Europe's biggest energy companies rigged the market.

GGavin Finch@GavinFinchBBG · May 16, 2024

Overjoyed to be named data journalist(s) of the year by @Wincottfound with @_ToddGillespie, @jasongrotto, @MathisWilliam, @alexcampbell, @ericfan_journo & Sam Dodge for exposing how Europe’s biggest energy firms saddled UK consumers with tens of millions in inflated costs.

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Robert Friedman@rfriedman305 · May 1, 2024

Thank you @maxabelson

MMax Abelson@maxabelson · May 1, 2024

The great @rfriedman305 was editing the @ColumbiaSpec in 1968. He writes in @BW: "Now we’re seeing the same counterproductive playbook dusted off: the suspension of student groups, the outlawing of campus protests, the police called." History rhymes bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

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Robert Friedman@rfriedman305 · Apr 23, 2024

The billionaire and the boiler room. Follow the money. @zachmider and @ZekeFaux finally figured out where some of the funding for the cash-advance industry is coming from. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @BW

rfriedman305's tweet card. One man started a cash-advance company. The other was a retired investing legend. A private credit fund had what both were looking for.

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Robert Friedman@rfriedman305 · Apr 16, 2024

On the @BW cover this week, an incredible and incredibly disturbing story by @livcarville. You can read it here: bloomberg.com/features/2024-…

rfriedman305's tweet image. On the @BW cover this week, an incredible and incredibly disturbing story by @livcarville. You can read it here: bloomberg.com/features/2024-…

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Robert Friedman@rfriedman305 · Mar 28, 2024

A fraud from the start. Another smart SBF piece by my colleagues @ZekeFaux and @chafkin.

ZZeke Faux@ZekeFaux · Mar 27, 2024

New story — At ftx, the fraud started early With @chafkin bloomberg.com/news/features/…

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