Born July 20, 1970, he grew up in Hollywood, Florida, and attended Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale.
[1] He was managing director and editor of financial research at Glass Lewis & Co. (2006–2007), an investment-research and proxy-advisory firm in Broomfield, Colorado.
Before that, he was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal (1997–2005), where he wrote about accounting and finance.
[2] Weil has been credited by Columbia Journalism Review, Barron's and The New Yorker magazine, among others, as the first reporter to challenge Enron's accounting practices during the Internet bubble, for his Sept. 20, 2000, WSJ article, "Energy Traders Cite Gains, But Some Math Is Missing".
[3] His columns for Bloomberg in 2007 and 2008 focused on questionable accounting practices at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Wachovia, Washington Mutual, Lehman Brothers, AIG, Citigroup, and IndyMac.