{"id":14823,"date":"2010-03-30T07:36:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T11:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=14823"},"modified":"2010-03-30T07:36:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T11:36:19","slug":"investment-manager-gets-9-years-in-prison-for-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2010\/investment-manager-gets-9-years-in-prison-for-fraud.html","title":{"rendered":"Investment manager gets 9 years in prison for fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN &#8211; A Beverly Hills, California, investment adviser who admitted to  bilking clients of more than $8 million was sentenced Monday to nine  years in prison for the fraud, according to the U.S. Department of  Justice.<\/p>\n<p>In sentencing Michael McCready, U.S. District Judge George King  called him a &#8220;thief&#8221; and said the bogus investment scheme &#8220;caused  substantial, and in some cases, life-altering harm&#8221; to the affected  clients.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/03\/29\/investment-manager-gets-9-years-in-prison-for-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN &#8211; A Beverly Hills, California, investment adviser who admitted to bilking clients of more than $8 million was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison for the fraud, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. In sentencing Michael McCready, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14825,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14823\/revisions\/14825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}