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Nicole
Einbinder
Correspondent

Nicole Einbinder is an investigative

correspondent for Insider based in San
Francisco.

Nicole has reported on toxic culture problems

at major Wall Street Erms and the "Judge Judy"
show, produced a three-part series about
deceptive practices and the wild history of
multilevel-marketing company Young Living,
and investigated how the New York state prison
system systematically failed to meet basic
standards for ensuring inmates' safety during
the COVID-19 pandemic. She won a a 2022 Los
Angeles Press Club award for an investigation
revealing that top California education oXcials
helped sell access to state public schools to elite
Chinese students, and her work has also been
recognized by the Society for Advancing
Business Editing and Writing and the Religion
News Association.

In 2022, Nicole received a criminal justice

reporting grant from the Ira A. Lipman Center
for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights at
Columbia University's Graduate School of
Journalism for a project examining how the
"deliberate indi[erence" standard makes it
extremely diXcult for incarcerated people to
vindicate clear violations of the Eighth
Amendment.

Before joining Business Insider in 2019, Nicole

was a digital reporting fellow at PBS Frontline.
She has been published by the The Nation, The
New Yorker, Bustle, The Seattle Times, and the
Orange County Register, among other outlets.

She graduated with honors from the University

of Washington and the Columbia Journalism
School, where she was the recipient of the
Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship.

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NEWS Feb 1, 2023, 6:01 AM

San Antonio prosecutors will

reexamine the case of a white
man linked to the drowning
death of his Black
transgender date

Protests erupted in 2018 when a judge found

Mark Daniel Lewis had no criminal guilt over
the death of his date Kenne McFadden, a
transgender woman.

NEWS Dec 15, 2022, 6:00 AM

The judge called Kenne

McFadden a 'nuisance' — and
let the man accused of killing
her walk free

When Insider investigated Eve years of

transgender homicides, we uncovered a legal
system riddled with bias, from police and
prosecutors to judges and juries.

NEWS Dec 7, 2022, 9:36 AM

A gender nonconforming teen

was killed at a party in small
town Alabama. Why haven't
police solved the case?

A transgender teen was killed in small-town

Alabama at a crowded party. Why haven't the
police solved the case two years later?

NEWS Sep 8, 2021, 12:24 PM

How NXIVM, a so-called self-

help company, crumbled after
former members exposed it
as a cult that abused sex
slaves

Here's everything you need to know about

NXIVM and the criminal cases against
members of the organization.

NEWS Jun 16, 2021, 6:50 AM

This public California school

district bestowed diplomas to
students at a private high
school in China

The Val Verde UniEed School District in

Southern California bestowed diplomas to
students at a private high school in China.
Experts said that raises red Wags.

NEWS Jun 15, 2021, 12:17 PM

These two University of

California campuses gave
special perks to students at a
private high school in China

Some of California's highest-ranking education

oXcials and leading public universities worked
closely with a swaggering entrepreneur who
launched a private school for elite Chinese
families.

NEWS Jun 14, 2021, 12:42 PM

Emails obtained by Insider

show how California's top
education oPcial helped a
private school for wealthy
Chinese kids

Tom Torlakson, California's former state

superintendent of public instruction, helped
establish Pegasus California School, which
attempted to mimic a California public high
school education for wealthy students in China.

POLITICS Feb 15, 2020, 3:43 PM

Michael Bloomberg's
employees created a book
purportedly full of his
oTensive quotes. Here it is.

A book of risqué and o[-color sexist remarks

purportedly by Michael Bloomberg haunts his
presidential campaign. Insider is publishing a
copy of it.

POLITICS Jan 7, 2020, 2:21 PM

Under pressure, Michael

Bloomberg faces a new court
challenge to his company's
use of non-disclosure
agreements in discrimination cases

A former Bloomberg employee is asking a judge

to invalidate employees' NDAs, as Michael
Bloomberg faces pressure over his use of the
agreements.

POLITICS Dec 13, 2019, 9:01 AM

The powerful media mogul at

the core of Trump's debunked
views on vaccines and autism

Donald Trump has repeatedly

claimed that childhood vaccines cause autism.
He likely got the idea from the former
chairman and CEO of NBCUniversal.

POLITICS Nov 17, 2019, 1:40 PM

Buttigieg campaign accused

of improperly using names of
black leaders in support
letter amid struggles to
attract African American voters

Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign said that

three prominent black Egures in South Carolina
supported his Douglass Plan. Some are
disputing that.

POLITICS Nov 17, 2019, 10:39 AM

Michael Bloomberg
apologizes for stop-and-frisk
policy amid a potential
presidential run

Michael Bloomberg apologized on Sunday for

his support of the NYPD's use of "stop-and-
frisk," after years of vigorously defending the
program.

NEWS Nov 17, 2019, 9:15 AM

An 18-year-old is accused of
directing synagogue attacks
across the country under the
name 'Operation
Kristallnacht,' according to the FBI

Federal authorities have accused a New Jersey

man of ordering the vandalism of synagogues
in Michigan and Wisconsin that occurred
earlier this year.

NEWS Oct 30, 2019, 9:50 AM

A forensic pathologist hired

by JeTrey Epstein's brother
says he may have been
strangled

Michael Baden, a forensic pathologist, said that

convicted sex o[ender Je[rey Epstein's body
displayed signs of homicide, rather than
suicide.

NEWS Oct 30, 2019, 8:35 AM

Airbnb is oTering free

housing to people displaced
by California's wildZres

Airbnb has announced its Open

Homes program to o[er free, temporary
housing to disaster victims impacted by the
Eres raging across California.

NEWS Oct 29, 2019, 7:23 AM

Joe Biden was denied Holy

Communion at a church in
South Carolina because he
supports abortion

Former Vice President Joe Biden was

reportedly denied Holy Communion at a
church in Florence, South Carolina, because he
supports abortion.

NEWS Oct 29, 2019, 5:52 AM

How much of a role did

revenge porn play in Rep.
Katie Hill's resignation from
Congress? Maybe more than
you think

Following Rep. Katie Hill's resignation from

Congress, questions remain over what role
revenge porn may have played in her downfall.

NEWS Oct 28, 2019, 1:37 PM

A former Boston College

student was indicted over her
boyfriend's suicide.
Prosecutors say she was
'physically, verbally, and psychologically
abusive.'

A former Boston College student was indicted

on charges of voluntary manslaughter over the
death of her boyfriend, who killed himself in
May.

NEWS Oct 28, 2019, 7:57 AM

Trump's former White House

adviser Steve Bannon called
Nancy Pelosi's impeachment
strategy 'winning'

Former White House chief strategist Steve

Bannon said in an interview that Speaker
Nancy Pelosi's strategy to impeach President
Trump is "winning."

NEWS Oct 16, 2019, 1:37 PM

A woman is suing the city of

San Antonio after a police
oPcer pulled out her tampon
in public

San Antonio may award a woman $205,000

after she accused a police oXcer of
inappropriately searching her and pulling out
her tampon in public.

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