Jason Leopold

Jason Leopold is a senior investigative reporter at Bloomberg News and the author of the FOIA Files newsletter, which was awarded a National Magazine Award in 2026. He is also a recipient of the Gerald Loeb award for investigative reporting, a George Polk award for health reporting and he has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting.

In early 2025, Leopold began chronicling the FBI’s response to calls for transparency surrounding the Epstein case. Using document-based reporting, Leopold broke news on the Trump administration’s frenzied handling and processing of the voluminous set of Epstein records. Shortly thereafter, Leopold obtained a previously unreleased cache of roughly 18,000 emails sent to and from the serial sex abuser. That led to a series of revelatory stories, including one that resulted in the firing of then-UK ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson, another that uncovered an abandoned federal money-laundering probe and one that called into question the testimony by Epstein’s partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, who was seeking clemency from Trump. Bloomberg’s coverage of Epstein’s Inbox, which was led by Leopold, altered public conversations about Epstein, his powerful business connections and the government’s case against him, and brought greater transparency to matters long shrouded in secrecy.

In 2020, Leopold was also the lead reporter on the massive reporting project known as the FinCEN Files, which was based on an unprecedented cache of internal US Treasury Department documents Leopold obtained from whistleblower Natalie May Edwards, that revealed how banks knowingly profit from corruption and how authorities around the world allow the dark economy to flourish.