[3][6] In 2018, while she was The Globe's capital markets reporter,[7] Posadzki started hearing rumours[4] that Michael Patryn, one of the co-founders of Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX, was a convicted felon[8] who had changed his name after serving jail time in the United States.
[7][10][11] In 2018 and 2019, Posadzki, Joe Castaldo and other Globe reporters broke a series of scoops[7] about QuadrigaCX, which collapsed into bankruptcy after its founder, Gerald Cotten, died under mysterious circumstances, leaving users unable to access hundreds of millions of dollars.
The second, a Netflix documentary called Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King, was criticized by The New York Times for being overly sensational[16] In the fall of 2021, Posadzki and Globe columnist Andrew Willis published a report in The Globe and Mail that the departure of the chief financial officer of Rogers Communications was the result of a power struggle[17] within the wireless giant that had initially aimed to oust its chief executive officer, Joe Natale.
As the crisis within the company and its controlling family deepened, Posadzki continued to break stories,[2] including about the infamous pocket dial[18] that exposed the plan to unseat Natale.
"[1] Dimitry Anastakis, writing for the Literary Review of Canada, praised Posadzki for providing "a public service, one that not only unspools a good yarn but also does what the best and bravest journalism should do: speak truth to power."