Jesse Eisinger

Jesse Eisinger is an American journalist, currently a financial reporter for ProPublica. He and colleague Jake Bernstein won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2011 citing "their exposure of questionable practices on Wall Street that contributed to the nation's economic meltdown, using digital tools to help explain the complex subject to lay readers." Eisinger also played a key role in uncovering the accounting scandal at Lernout & Hauspie; in August 2000 he published an article in The Wall Street Journal detailing that firms use fictitious Korean transactions to hide losses.