Robert I. Friedman


Robert I. Friedman was an American investigative journalist.
In 1993, Friedman castigated the FBI for ignoring information it had developed on the Muslim extremists behind the first bombing of the World Trade Center. The report earned him a Society of Professional Journalists Award for Best Investigative Reporting in a Weekly.
Friedman is probably best known for his writings about violence-prone Jewish fundamentalists and the book “Red Mafiya” about the Russian mob and its entry into the U.S.
His reporting has resulted Friedman receiving death threats throughout his career. At one point he was informed by the FBI that Seimon Mogilevich had put a contract out on his life.
Robert I. Friedman died on July 2, 2002 at the age of 51 as the result of a rare disease he contracted while in India working on a story about human trafficking and sexual slavery.

Legacy

The "Robert I. Friedman Award" is given out to investigative journalists, by the Board of the Fund for Investigative Journalism.

Books by Robert I. Friedman