Hi, everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison

podcast. Today, we're going to dig into an investigation into federal officials profiting

off companies they regulate.

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Today a big treat we're going to hear from one of the finest investigative reporters around

Pulitzer Prize winner James Gromaldi. I think James and I met around the year 2000 when

we were both breaking stories on the deadly Ford Roll Ours with firestone tires and the

big recall that followed our reporting. You know, I think today that the news organizations

where we worked the Washington Post for him and CBS news for me, I think today they would

not cover the story at least not the same way that we were allowed to do factually, fairly

aggressively. Today special interests and spin rule the day and control the news too

often. But some great journalism still does get done. I think we do a good bit of that

on my TV program full measure, my independent program. And James Gromaldi does a lot of that

as a senior reporter now at the Wall Street Journal. Well, he and colleagues Rebecca Ballhouse

and Brody Mullins have done some important work investigating federal officials profiting

off investments in the very companies they regulate. They also found some federal officials

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