Michael P. Regan, Columnist

Lawyer Up, Bro Club

When the going gets tough, it's time for a little attorney-client privilege.

May 20, 2016 at 2:50 PM UTC

Michael P. Regan is the global team leader for cryptocurrencies at Bloomberg as well as a former senior markets editor and former Americas team leader for Bloomberg's Markets Live blog. He has covered Wall Street for Bloomberg News as a columnist and editor since 2007. He previously worked for the Associated Press.

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True confession: I didn't originally set out to be a financial journalist.

Rather, the stories that always excited me most were crime stories. Not, say, serial killers or other weirdos like that. But crime-for-money tales have always been my favorite -- from the day I read "Catch Me If You Can" as a kid in the 1980s to my days as a night editor in the 1990s at the tabloid in Trenton, where the local underworld was run by the DeCavalcante family that served as inspiration for "The Sopranos."

But as the century turned, it became clear that the best crime stories no longer involved the mobsters of the world, but the Enrons and Tycos of the world. Those crime-for-money stories from the city desk were just a gateway drug to where the real hard stuff could be found: the business section.