ClaimsMichael Burry

“Veronica was who I was dealing with, she was my main contact their”

Michael Burry, interviewed by FCIC 2025 Scion Funds annual letters compilation (investorkurs.no)

Factual Their own work or organisation

Burry's main contact at Goldman Sachs was Veronica, a front-end salesperson.

Mostly true True in substance, wrong in a detail.

Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?

The second judge said mixed; the verdict shown is the first judge's.

What would count as true or false

True: credible accounts (The Big Short, interviews, Burry's correspondence) show that Burry's main contact at Goldman Sachs for his credit default swap trades was a salesperson named Veronica (e.g. Veronica Grinstein) in a client-facing sales role. Mostly true: Veronica was a principal Goldman contact and a salesperson, but sources describe her role or her primacy slightly differently, for example as one of several main contacts. Mixed: Veronica was a Goldman contact, but not clearly his main one, or her role was not sales. Mostly false: a Veronica was involved only peripherally while sources name a different person as his main contact. False: there is no record of a Veronica as his Goldman contact, or the records show a different firm or person.

Set before the research began.

Evidence (4)

  1. E1 Michael Burry's Testimony Before The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission ValueWalk · 29 March 2011 Own record

    “FCIC: Is there anybody besides Justin Green and Veronica Grinstein at Goldman that you were dealing with? Or that you recall?”
  2. E2 Betting on the Blind Side | Business | Vanity Fair Vanity Fair (excerpt of Michael Lewis, The Big Short, W. W. Norton, 2010) · April 2010

    “On Friday, June 15, Burry’s Goldman Sachs saleswoman, Veronica Grinstein, vanished. He called and e-mailed her, but she didn’t respond until late the following Monday—to tell him that she was “out for the day.””
  3. E3 Betting on the Blind Side | Business | Vanity Fair Vanity Fair (excerpt of Michael Lewis, The Big Short, W. W. Norton, 2010) · April 2010

    “The Goldman saleswoman made a weak effort to claim that, even as the index of subprime-mortgage bonds collapsed, the market for insuring them hadn’t budged.”
  4. E4 Betting on the Blind Side | Business | Vanity Fair Vanity Fair (excerpt of Michael Lewis, The Big Short, W. W. Norton, 2010) · April 2010

    “On June 29, Burry received a note from his Morgan Stanley salesman, Art Ringness,”

Reasoning

Michael Lewis's excerpt of The Big Short in Vanity Fair calls Veronica Grinstein "Burry's Goldman Sachs saleswoman" and describes Burry calling and e-mailing her (E5), and it refers again to the Goldman saleswoman (E6). That confirms she was his client-facing salesperson at Goldman. The FCIC transcript names Justin Green alongside Grinstein as a Goldman contact (E2), and none of the evidence explicitly calls her his single main contact. Her role matches the claim, but her primacy is only implied, so the claim is mostly true.

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Michael Burry, “Burry's main contact at Goldman Sachs was Veronica, a front-end salesperson.” (said 2025). Verdict: mostly true. Reliability API, claim c_b7e0bcde9aa6, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_b7e0bcde9aa6

This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.

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  5. Mostly true Factual 19 November 2025
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    Michael Burry is still managing his own money and is active in markets.

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