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Ridgewood, New Jersey
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Senior Editor
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Bill Alpert is a Senior Editor at Barrons, The Dow Jones Business and Financial Weekly, where since 1984 he has published nerdy feature stories, columns and investigative projects of use to investors. His exposes have inspired regulatory reforms in diverse areas, such as back-door stock exchange listings (1), for-profit colleges (2), and the proposed Magnitsky list law to sanction those involved in the death of Russian whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky (3). The federal government recovered billions of dollars in false claims prosecutions, after he showed how leading pharmaceutical companies and doctors were defrauding Medicare with phony price lists (4). Many stories
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