Breaking: “Disappeared” Business journalist Herb Greenberg has been located

My heart dropped when I learned through the Web Site Deep Capture that business journalist Herb Greenberg had disappeared.

According to Deep Capture:

Acqua Wellington is controlled by a “prominent” investor named Isser Elishis. In an otherwise flattering article, Herb Greenberg – a journalist whose entire career was devoted to granting “courtesies” to hedge funds in the Milken network – described Elishis as the “banker of last resort.”

Herb, who disappeared from public sight after he was exposed by Deep Capture, now owns a company that ostensibly sells financial research to hedge funds in the Milken network (or, arguably, merely receives payment from them for the extensive string of “courtesies” that Herb extended while working as a journalist,

I have had a few dealings with Greenberg on the past, notably on a story involving how Overstock.com chose to fight criticism of their business. I had no choice but to go on a search for Greenberg. I would know no peace until I found him. So, four seconds in to my search I was in touch with him, and can now declaratively state:

“I, William K. Wolfrum, have been in e-mail contact with Herb Greenberg, who has noted that rumors of his “disappearance” are greatly “fabricated.” From Greenberg:

“I am Currently living in a cave in Bolivia. I FLED San Diego after having been humiliated and revealed by the Pulitzer Prize-bound journalists of Deep Capture, and the fear that they would reveal that my entire career was devoted to granting courtesies to hedge funds in the Milken network.”

And then, in a less derisive, snark-filled response, Greenberg wrote:

“Yes, the rumors of my disappearance are greatly fabricated. I’m actually alive and well with a healthy Twitter following (though I rarely ever Twitter) and spend most of my days toiling away in my research business, which recently celebrated its one-year anniversary.”

So have no fear if you let Deep Capture scare you about Greenberg’s “disappearance.” No worries. He’s around.

–WKW

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