Writer Peter Elkind is an editor at large at Fortune magazine.

Specializing in investigative stories, his works including in-depth pieces about Halliburton Corp., NYSE chief Dick Grasso's $140 million pay package, a "blood feud" between Volkswagen and General Motors, New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer, and Viktor Kozeny, known as "The Pirate of Prague" ("The Incredible Half-Billion-Dollar Azerbaijani Oil Swindle").

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