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Herald Tribune – At a bail hearing in which Arthur G. Nadel was sent back to his cell to come up with better co-signers, a federal judge heard from the receiver in the case about a previously unknown multimillion-dollar hedge fund account controlled by Nadel in the Cayman Islands.
Receiver Burton Wiand, a Tampa lawyer, testified that he had discovered a hedge fund in the Caymans that at one point contained $15 million. He was able to follow $5 million back to one of the six funds at Nadel’s Scoop Management in Sarasota. The whereabouts of the remaining $10 million is unclear.
HeraldTribune.com – So much for Art Nadel’s high-profile legal team.
Nadel, the Sarasota money manager charged with running a $400 million investment scam, is now represented by a federal public defender after his private attorneys dropped him on Wednesday.
Prominent Tampa attorneys Barry Cohen and Todd Foster had defended Nadel against criminal charges since he turned himself in to the FBI on Jan. 27, two weeks after he left Sarasota as his hedge funds imploded.
Herald Tribune – As Arthur G. Nadel made his way to New York Thursday under the watchful eye of U.S. marshals, the clock ticked away on the 30-day time limit faced by prosecutors to indict the man accused of a hedge fund swindle before they would have to set him free.
Nadel, accused of looting tens of millions of dollars from six hedge funds he operated from downtown Sarasota, has been ordered to stand trial in New York on one count of securities fraud and one count of wire fraud.
Herald Tribune – A federal judge extended a freeze on the assets of Sarasota’s Arthur G. Nadel on Tuesday, but failed to include other partners — a measure some investors with the accused hedge fund swindler have been pushing for aggressively because Nadel shared $95.5 million in incentive fees with other Scoop Management Inc. principals.
Nadel did not contest U.S. District Judge Richard A. Lazzara’s order freezing personal and business bank accounts, property and other assets Nadel controls solely or with others, so a hearing scheduled for today was canceled.
Investors like Fort Lauderdale’s Louis Paolino Jr., who is out $5.8 million since the Jan. 14 implosion of the six funds Nadel managed, had hoped the hearing might shed light on why the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was not seeking to include Nadel partners Neil or Chris Moody in the freeze.
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Missing hedge fund manager Arthur Nadel, who disappeared last week along with an estimated $350 million of investor’s money, turned himself in to the FBI yesterday.
The Sarasota resident, 76, turned himself in at a Tampa office, accompanied by his legal team and his partner, Todd Foster. In the courtroom later that day, his lawyer Barry Cohen told the judge that Nadel has been “visiting with the psychiatrist the past week” after “suffering some emotional problems.” The judge postponed the bail hearing for three days.
Nadel faces a federal charge of securities and wire fraud after using “manipulative and deceptive devices” to bilk investors out of hundreds of millions. Shortly after the infamous arrest of Bernard Madoff, Nadel’s family reported him missing on January 14.
Nadel reportedly wrote a letter to his wife before he missing. According to reports, he allegedly told her to withdraw as much cash as she could before their accounts were frozen.
According to the criminal complaint, Nadel’s fraud dates back to at least 2003 and has affected over 100 victims nationwide. There is also a civil complaint filed against Nadel by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, who alleges that he transferred $1.25 million into secret bank accounts.
Julie Scuderi Senior Editor for HedgeCo.Net Email: julie@hedgeco.net
