Herb Greenberg

In February 2006, Greenberg and other journalists were served subpoenas from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) demanding records of phone and e-mail communications with sources for an investigation of which the journalists were not the target. In a rare public reprimand, SEC chairman Christopher Cox said that he was not consulted prior to the issuance of the subpoenas by the SEC's San Francisco office, and that the "subpoena to a journalist which seeks to compel production of his or her notes and records of conversations with sources is highly unusual."

Later he did an investigation into A.C.L.N., a Belgian company whose ships transported cars to Africa from Europe. It was later sued by the SEC on 8 October 2002 and delisted by the New York Stock Exchange. In 2004 the company agreed to disgorge around $27.6 million, which was to be returned to investors. The company has subsequently disappeared.

Greenberg started an investigation into the software company AremisSoft, which was later sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for fraud around 4 October 2001. According to the SEC, Its former chief executive, Roys Poyiadjis, later consented to disgorge around $200 million "of unlawful profit from his trading in AremisSoft stock -- among the largest recoveries the SEC has obtained from an individual."

Before transitioning to online journalism, Greenberg spent 10 years as the six-day-a-week columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle's Business section. While at the Chronicle, for several years in the mid-1990s, he also had his own America Online business commentary site, Bizinsider. Also while at the Chronicle, Greenberg spent several years as the morning business reporter for KRON-TV in San Francisco and freelanced for five years as the monthly "Against the Grain" columnist for Fortune (magazine).

Herb Greenberg (born June 8, 1952 in Miami, Florida) is an American journalist. In November 2014 he started a new investment research firm called GVB Research, which was subsequently renamed Pacific Square Research. He had rejoined TheStreet on August 16, 2013 as a commentator and editor of Herb Greenberg's Reality Check newsletter. He also continues as a contributor for CNBC, where Greenberg had been senior stocks commentator since June 2010.