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Laura Hazard OwenSeptember 18, 2017

This former hedge fund guy is a one-man nonprofit investigating some of America’s shadiest companies

“You can’t stop these guys from getting rich as hell and doing things, but I can at least have a marker laid out there in the cyber world saying: Hey, take a hard look.”

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Owen, Laura Hazard. "This former hedge fund guy is a one-man nonprofit investigating some of America’s shadiest companies." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 18 Sep. 2017. Web. 31 Mar. 2025.

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Owen, L. (2017, Sep. 18). This former hedge fund guy is a one-man nonprofit investigating some of America’s shadiest companies. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved March 31, 2025, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/09/this-former-hedge-fund-guy-is-a-one-man-nonprofit-investigating-some-of-americas-shadiest-companies/

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Owen, Laura Hazard. "This former hedge fund guy is a one-man nonprofit investigating some of America’s shadiest companies." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified September 18, 2017. Accessed March 31, 2025. https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/09/this-former-hedge-fund-guy-is-a-one-man-nonprofit-investigating-some-of-americas-shadiest-companies/.

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