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Englander’s Millennium Funds May Lose $1 Billion to Withdrawals

Bloomberg - Millennium Partners LP, the $13.5 billion hedge-fund firm run by Israel Englander, plans to return $1 billion to investors who asked for their cash back by year-end, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The redemptions, equal to 7.4 percent of client assets, would have been higher except the New York-based firm limits […]

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NY hedge fund swindler going to medical facility

Newsday - A federal judge has ordered a detailed physical and mental health evaluation for hedge-fund swindler Samuel Israel III before deciding whether he’s competent to plead guilty for skipping out on prison.
Judge Kenneth Karas accepted a joint recommendation from defense lawyer Barry Bohrer and prosecutor Sarah Krissoff to send Israel, 49, to a […]

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Hedge fund founder barred from pleading

Boston Globe - A federal judge barred Samuel Israel, the convicted founder of hedge fund firm Bayou Group LLC, from entering a plea to bail jumping, saying his addiction to methadone may have impaired his judgment.

A US judge cited Bayou Group founder Samuel Israel’s methadone addiction and his ability to understand the proceedings.

Israel, who sought […]

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Hedge fund fraud cover offered

Financial Times- When hedge fund manager and convicted fraudster Samuel Israel III disappeared this month, leaving nothing but the message "suicide is painless" scrawled in the dust on his car, you can be sure his life assurer did not pay out - not least because police believe he was trying to fake his death.
Another type […]

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Hedge fund fraud cover offered

Financial Times- When hedge fund manager and convicted fraudster Samuel Israel III disappeared this month, leaving nothing but the message "suicide is painless" scrawled in the dust on his car, you can be sure his life assurer did not pay out - not least because police believe he was trying to fake his death.
Another type […]

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International Herald Tribune- The girlfriend of a missing hedge fund swindler was arrested Thursday and charged with helping him elude his sentence on the day he was supposed to begin serving 20 years in prison.
Debra Ryan was charged with aiding and abetting the escape of Samuel Israel III.
Federal agents said Thursday that Israel took off in a […]

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Manhunt for hedge fund felon becomes global

Financial Times- The 10-day-long search for missing hedge fund manager Samuel Israel is entering a critical phase with law enforcement agencies sparing no expense to ensure they "get the body back" before the trail goes cold.
Authorities are now working on the assumption that the body in question will eventually be found alive and in all […]

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Hedge-fund scammer a suicide? Victims doubt it

Philadelphia Daily News- A hedge-fund swindler who was supposed to be driving himself to prison abandoned his car on a bridge with the phrase "Suicide is Painless" scrawled on its hood, but no body has been found in the river below - and the victims of his fraud say they doubt he killed himself.
The FBI, […]

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