New York Post – The heat is getting turned up under Alan and Philip Milton, the brother team that runs Greenwich-based Windmill Management and its embattled SageCrest hedge funds.

A lawyer for an investor in the SageCrest II hedge fund is threatening to fight the Miltons’ Chapter 11 filing for the $500 million fund – claiming the duo made the court filing last Sunday night, in part, to head off the possible appointment of a forensic accountant to probe the fund’s books.

WoodCreek Capital, was due in court Aug. 18, the day after the Miltons filed to liquidate their funds, to seek a pre-emptive lien on some of SageCrest assets and access to inspect their books.

WoodCreek had filed a $5.8 million lawsuit against the Miltons’ fund claiming the duo had reneged on a promise to honor their withdrawal from the fund.

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