Diane Dimond on Lynn’s Warriors with Lynn Shaw - 12 November 2023

On today's show, award-winning investigative journalist and author Diane Dimond discusses her most recent book which exposes the abusive and often criminal element within the nation’s guardianship/conservatorship system. The culmination of her more than seven years of investigation, “We’re Here to Help: When Guardianship Goes Wrong,” is a stark look at a system that was designed to protect the nation’s at-risk population but, sadly, has morphed into a predatory playground for greedy bad actors.

GUEST OVERVIEW: Diane Dimond has enjoyed an award-winning career in radio, television and print. Her expertise is in the crime and justice genre, and she is the author of four books: BE CAREFUL WHO YOU LOVE: INSIDE THE MICHAEL JACKSON CASE (2005), CIRQUE DU SALAHI (2010), THINKING OUTSIDE THE CRIME AND JUSTICE BOX (2016) and WE’RE HERE TO HELP: WHEN GUARDIANSHIP GOES WRONG (2023).

Dimond began her journalism career in her hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico. As a radio newscaster and crime reporter for KOB Radio (now KKOB) she exposed corruption within the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department, put a sheriff in jail and won acclaim from the American Bar Association when the association presented her with their coveted Silver Gavel Award for Outstanding Public Service reporting. As a news anchor on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, a Capitol Hill correspondent for the RKO Radio Networks, a correspondent for WCBS-TV in New York and the Senior Investigative correspondent for the syndicated program Hard Copy Dimond built a reputation as a dogged investigative journalist. Her strength is in translating complicated stories and presenting them in conversational and understandable nuggets – be it on television, radio or in print. She also worked for CNBC as co-anchor of UpFront Tonight a nightly news program with Geraldo Rivera; at MSNBC as a political correspondent and anchor; at Fox News as a freelance weekend anchor following the September 11th attacks; and at Court TV Dimond was an anchor of daytime court coverage and Chief Correspondent of the CTV investigative Unit.

In 2008, Dimond began writing a weekly syndicated crime and justice column. Distributed by Creators Syndicate and distributed to newspapers nationwide. She prides herself on writing about wide-ranging crime and justice topics designed to raise public awareness and promote outside-the-box thinking. As a long-time contributor for TheDailyBeast.com Dimond covered multiple stories, including several high profile criminal trials. Among them: The Casey Anthony murder trial, the political corruption trial of former Senator John Edwards and the child molestation case against former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky. She has also contributed to Newsweek, RealClear Investigations, the Albuquerque Journal and other print publications.

Dimond is one of the few journalists who can claim proficiency as a crossover media personality – proficient in radio, television and print. https://dianedimond.com/