Diana B. Henriques

  • But she is proudest of her 2004 series exposing the exploitation of American military personnel by financial service companies.
    • Her work prompted legislative reform and cash reimbursements for tens of thousands of defrauded service members, drawing recognition and thanks from military lawyers and families across the country.
    • For that series, she was a Pulitzer finalist in 2005 and received a George Polk Award, Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and the Worth Bingham Prize.

dianabhenriques.com/bio/

  • Mr. MOLINO.*  Let me just say one thing about—I alluded to it in my oral statement, but the conversations that I have had with Diana Henriques, who is The New York Times reporter who wrote the outstanding series of articles, began not with ‘‘I think you have a problem, let me ask you some questions,’’
    • it began with something akin to ‘‘I understand you have uncovered some problems and I want to write about it.’’
  • And we then opened a very aggressive dialogue to ensure that she had access and information so that she would be able to reflect an honest portrayal of where we were.  (p34)

*John M. Molino, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy, U.S. Department of Defense

2005 1117 - GOV (Senate) - A Review of the GAO Report on the Sale of Financial Products to Military Personnel, Hrg. 109-892 - [PDF-89p,  ---  [BonkNote]

  • LTCM - Long Term Capital Management
  • Hedge Funds
  • Citi / Travelers Merger
  • Class Actions
  • Mortgages. Mortgage Lenders
  • September 11, 2001
  • Life Insurance
    • Executive Life
    • Primerica
    • Prudential  
    • Military
  • Junk Bonds, Drexel, Milken
  • Muni-Bonds
  • Bond Insurance
  • Mutual Funds
  • Enron
  • Bernie Madoff
  • [Books]
    • The Machinery of Greed: Public Authority Abuse and What to Do About It
    • Fidelity’s World: The Secret Life and Public Power of the Mutual Fund Giant 
    • The White Sharks of Wall Street: Thomas Mellon Evans and the Original Corporate Raiders
    • The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and The Death of Trust 
    • A First-Class Catastrophe: The Road to Black Monday, the Worst Day in Wall Street History

1990s

  • 1990 0214 - NYT - The Collapse of Drexel Burnham Lambert; For Those Tied to Drexel, Concern but No Panic, Diana B. Henriques -
  • 1991 0101 - NYT - First Executive Stake Is Sold for 14¢ a Share, Diana B. Henriques - [link-3p]
  • 1991 0113 - NYT - Wall Street; Keeping Tabs on the Rascals, Diana B. Henriques -
  • 1991 0224 - NYT - Wall Street; The Hidden Value of Bond Insurance, Diana B. Henriques -
  • 1993 0323- NYT - Court Rejects Asset Plan For Insurer, Diana B. Henriques - [link-3p]
  • 1994 1224 - Risk Is Cited in 6 More California Counties
  • 1995 0120 - Parties Clash at Hearing On Securities Litigation
  • 1995 0430 - MUTUAL FUNDS; Lost in a Prospectus Labyrinth
  • 1996 0203 - Apple and Disclosure: How Golden Is Silence?
  • 1996 0228 - High Court Hands Corporations Victory on Class-Action Suits
  • 1996 1201 - Wealthy, Helped by Wall St., New Find Ways to Escape Tax on Profits
    • SunAmerica, Eli Broad
  • 1996 1229 - 10 Years After Tax Overhaul, the Loopholes Expand
  • 1998 0407 - SHAPING A COLOSSUS: THE LAW; A Challenge to the 1930's Division of Financial Power
    • Citi / Travelers
  • 1998 0724 - NYT - Appeals Court Panel Upholds Prudential Insurance Settlement, Diana B. Henriques - [link-2p]
  • 1998 0805 - Judge Orders Bidding Be Used to Pick Lawyers in Big Class Action
  • 1998 0810 - NYT - Northwestern Mutual Life Deal Is Expected, Diana B. Henriques - [link-2p]
    • Frank Russell Company, Russell 2000 index, 
  • 1999 0512 - A Novel Feature in Price-Fixing Settlement
  • 1999 0601 - S.E.C. Is Making Lawyers Walk in Clients' Shoes
  • 1999 0619 - Hedge Fund To Cash Out Original Stakes
    • LTCM
  • 1999 1220 - NYT - ECONOMY & INDUSTRY: FLASHBACK; Of Crooks and Cons, Scandals and Schemes, Diana B. Henriques - [link-5p]

2000-2003

  • 2000 0315 - NYT - MORTGAGED LIVES: A special report.; Profiting From Fine Print With Wall Street's Help, Diana B. Henriques - [link-15p]
  • 2000 0402 - NYT - Congress and Regulators Start Efforts to Crack Down on Deceptive Lending Practices, Diana B. Henriques - [link-4p]
  • 2000 1027 - NYT - HIDDEN CHARGES: A special report.; Extra Costs on Car Loans Draw Lawsuits, Diana B. Henriques - [link-9p]
  • 2001 0109 - N.A.S.D. Panel Votes to Expel Short-Seller and Imposes Fine
  • 2001 0617 - Pitiful, Helpless Giant - Diana B Henriques reviews book - The Fed. The Inside Story of How the World's Most Powerful Financial Institution Drives the Markets, by Martin Mayer
  • 2001 0920 - A NATION CHALLENGED: DEATH BENEFITS; Money for Families Of Attack Victims Could Vary Widely - [link]
  • 2001 1013 - Company Tried To Capitalize On Sept. 11 - [link]
  • 2001 1129 - ENRON'S COLLAPSE: THE DERIVATIVES; Market That Deals in Risks Faces a Novel One - 
  • 2001 1230 - Ideas & Trends; In Death's Shadow, Valuing Each Life
  • 2002 1211 - Man in the News; A Wall Street Insider for the S.E.C. -- William Henry Donaldson
  • 2002 1218 - Deciding on Executive Pay: Lack of Independence Seen
  • 2003 1214 - OFF THE SHELF; Of Secrets, Shame and Solace (David Denby)

2004

  • 2004 0720 - NYT - Basic Training Doesn't Guard Against Insurance Pitch to G.I.'s, by Diana B. Henriques - [link-16p]
  • 2004 0721 - NYT - Insurers Rely on Congress to Keep Access to G.I.'s, by Diana B. Henriques - [link-10p]
  • 2004 0721 - NYT - Fleecing American Soldiers, by Diana B. Henriques - [link-1p]
  • 2004 0722 - NYT - Sales of Investments to G.I.'s Under Scrutiny in Washington, by Diana B. Henriques - [link-3p]
  • 2004 0724 - NYT - Panel Hearing On Soldiers And Insurers, by Diana B. Henriques - [link-1p]
  • 2004 0902 - NYT - Congress Puts Insurance Sales To Military Under Scrutiny, by Diana B. Henriques - [link-3p]
  • 2004 0908 - NYT - A Deepening Debate on Soldiers and Their Insurers, by Diana B. Henriques - 5p
  • 2004 0910 - NYT - Hearing Confronts Insurers Who Market to Soldiers, by Diana B. Henriques - [link-3p]
  • 2004 0923 - NYT - Insurer to Refund Money To Soldiers Who Bought High-Cost Life Policies, by Diana B. Henriques - [link-3p]
  • 2004 1002 - NYT - Inquiry Stymied on Company With Air Force Ties, by Diana B. Henriques - [link-5p]
  • 2004 1006 - NYT - House Moves to Protect G.I.'s on Finances, by Diana B. Henriques - [link-3p]
  • 2004 1019 - Subpoena Issued to Insurer Over Sales to G.I.'s, by Diana B. Henriques -  [link-2p]
    • 2005 0201 - GOV (Senate) - Death Benefits and Services Available to Survivors of Military Personnel and Legislative Proposals to Enhance These Benefits, CSPAN - Military Survivor Benefits - Committee on Armed Services - [PDF-133p-GooglePlay, VIDEO-CSPAN]
      • (p94) - 2004 1019 - NYT - Subpoena Issued to Insurer Over Sales to G.I.'s, by Diana B. Henriques - [link]
        • American Amicable Life Insurance Company of Waco, Tex.
        • Department of Justice
        • This month, the nation's leading insurance ratings agency, A.M. Best Company, announced that it was reviewing, with negative implications, the financial strength ratings of the American Amicable Holding affiliates based on "the adverse publicity within the military base life insurance market surrounding improper sales practices by some agents with enlisted military personnel."
  • 2004 1207 - NYT - Seeking Quick Loans, Soldiers Race Into High-Interest Traps, by Diana B. Henriques - [link-9p]
  • 2004 1210 - NYT - Company Stops Marketing High-Fee Fund to Soldiers, by Diana B. Henriques - [link-2p]
  • 2004 1216 - NYT - Company Settles Charges on Funds Sold to Soldiers, by Diana B. Henriques - [link-2p]
  • 2004 1229 - NYT - Needing Cash, Veterans Sign Over Pensions, by Diana B. Henriques - [link-5p]

2005

  • 2005 0113 - NYT - Army Officers Disciplined For Allowing Sales Pitches, by Diana B. Henriques - [link-3p]
  • 2005 0126 - NYT- Judge Calls Catalog Outlet a Usurer in Disguise, by Diana B. Henriques - [link-2p]
  • 2005 0323 - NYT - Reporter Wins Award:  New York Times reporter Diana Henriques wins Harvard University's $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for 2005 for articles on use of misleading information to sell financial products to military families; series led to investigations and Congressional hearings. - [link-1p]
  • 2005 0420 - NYT - Pentagon Proposes Rules to End Abusive Sales Practices on Bases, by Diana B. Henriques - [link-2p]
  • 2005 0507 - NYT - Insurers Protest Military's Plan on Policy Sales, by Diana B. Henriques - [link-2p] 
  • 2005 0629 - NYT - House Bill Toughens Rules on Marketing to Military, by Diana B. Henriques - [link-2p]
  • 2005 0701 - NYT - Study Examines Sales to Soldiers, by Diana B. Henriques - [link-2p]
  • 2005 1116 - NYT - Report urges curbs on insurance sales to GIs, by Diana B. Henriques - 2p 
  • 2005 1117 - NYT - Curbs on Insurance for Military Are Urged, by Diana B. Henriques - [link-3p] 
  • 2005 1118 - NYT - Senators Demand Changes in Fiscal Advice to Soldiers, by Diana B. Henriques - [link-3p]

2006-2009

  • 2006 0216 - NYT - Regulator to Present Financial Education Program for G.I.'s, by Diana B. Henriques - [link-p]
  • 2006 0720 - NYT - Senate Limits Financial Sales to Military, by Diana B. Henriques - [link-p]
  • 2006 0803 - NYT - Insurer Settles Complaints About Military Policies (The American Amicable Life Insurance Company), by Diana B. Henriques - [link-p]
  • 2006 0804 - NYT - Insurer Settles Charges Over Its Sales to Soldiers, by Diana B. Henriques - [link-p]
  • 2007 0509 - NYT - Fidelity Units Settle Complaints Over Military Fund Sales, by Diana B. Henriques - [link-p]
  • 2008 0703 - NYT - Georgia Bars Insurance Firm Over Violations Regulators in the state say Trans World Assurance, by Diana B. Henriques - [link-p]