Michael S Schmidt Biography
Michael S Schmidt is a writer, best-selling author, and New York Times correspondent stationed in Washington, D.C. While covering national security and federal law enforcement, he has broken several high-profile stories. As a national security specialist, he also contributes to MSNBC and NBC News. He also co-founded and edited Marooned with his classmate Erin Quinn.
How old is Michael S Schmidt? Age
How old is Michael? He is 38 years old as of 2021. He was born on 23 September 1983 in Nyack, New York, U.S.
Michael S Schmidt Education
Schmidt attended John Randolph Tucker High School in Richmond, Virginia, and later graduated with an AB in international affairs from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, in 2005.
Michael S Schmidt Height
How tall is Schmidt? Washington, D.C.-based writer, stands at a height of 5 Foot 7 Inches and weighs 66 kgs.
Michael S Schmidt Family | Parents
Who are Michael Schmidt’s parents? He was born and raised in Nyack, New York United States. A son of a Jewish family. His parents are Rachel and James Schmidt.
Michael S Schmidt Wife | Married
Is Michael S. Schmidt Married? Apparently, he is very private about his personal life therefore it is not known if he is in any relationship. There are also no rumors of him being in any past relationship with anyone.
Michael S Schmidt Career
In 2004, Schmidt worked at The Boston Globe. Schmidt began working for The New York Times as a news clerk in 2005. In December 2007, he was promoted to staff reporter, where he focused on performance-enhancing chemicals and legal issues in sports. David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez, and Sammy Sosa were among the approximately 100 players who tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug in 2003, according to Schmidt. Schmidt broke the story in 2010 about how baseball super-agent Scott Boras’ company handed a teenage prospect tens of thousands of dollars in loans, raising questions about whether Boras’ company had breached any rules intended to protect athletes from exploitation.
Schmidt was a correspondent for The New York Times in Iraq in 2011. During his time in Iraq, he uncovered a cache of classified documents in a Baghdad junkyard. In the documents, Marines testified about the 2005 Haditha Massacre. In that incident, the Marines killed 26 Iraqi civilians. An Iraqi junkyard attendant used other classified American documents to cook smoked carp. The story garnered a lot of good attention when it aired in 2011, as American forces were leaving Iraq. Schmidt was one of a group of New York Times reporters who broke a series of stories in May 2015 about the Justice Department charging FIFA leaders. The executives were apprehended by law enforcement agents.
Schmidt and Matt Apuzzo (co-written with Julia Preston) wrote a New York Times story in December 2015 criticizing the US government for missing important evidence during Tashfeen Malik’s visa vetting process, who would later become one of the shooters in the 2015 San Bernardino massacre. The FBI director slammed the report as “garble,” and it was discovered that she had expressed her views on violent jihad in private chats rather than “freely discussing her opinions on violent jihad on social media,” as the article claimed. Following these articles by Schmidt and his coauthors, the New York Times’ public editor called for “structural changes” (both of which had relied on anonymous government sources).
Schmidt has been a lead correspondent for the New York Times on the federal and congressional investigations into ties between Donald Trump’s aides and Russians. Schmidt first reported on March 5, 2017, that FBI Director James Comey had asked the Justice Department to publicly contradict Trump’s assertions that President Obama had him wiretapped during the 2016 campaign.
Michael S Schmidt Net Worth
Schmidt has an estimated net worth ranging from $1 Million – $5 Million.