Michelle Leder is a renowned author, reporter, and Securities and Exchange Commission filings expert. She first became interested in U.S. SEC filings early in her career, while writing about a small Florida bank that was engaged in aggressive accounting during the last real estate boom. As a reporter and editor, Leder spent 10 years at daily newspapers in Florida, Connecticut, and New York. As a freelance business journalist, her work has been featured in The New York Times, Portfolio and Slate, to name a few. Leder has appeared on Bloomberg TV, CNBC, and The Today Show and has been quoted in dozens of newspapers, both in the U.S. and abroad, about digging into SEC filings.