EXCLUSIVE: Follow-up Interview with ‘Boy Genius’ Stock Picker Wonders Why Why did Mr. Islam do this? Why did he allow people to believe that he was some sort of master investor who was living a Wolf of Wall Street existence? By Ken Kurson
Exclusive: The ‘$72 Million’ Kid Reveals How He Duped New York Magazine New York apologized for reporting that a senior at Stuyvesant High School made $72 million dollar in the stock market. By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
EXCLUSIVE: New York Mag’s Boy Genius Investor Made It All Up EXCLUSIVE: New York Mag's Boy Genius Investor Made It All Up. In an Observer interview, Mohammed Islam, said to have investment returns of $72 million as a high school senior, admits he invented the whole story By Ken Kurson