{"id":17061,"date":"2010-08-04T05:59:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T09:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=17061"},"modified":"2010-08-04T05:59:13","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T09:59:13","slug":"merkin-seeks-to-dismiss-madoff-feeder-fund-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2010\/merkin-seeks-to-dismiss-madoff-feeder-fund-lawsuit.html","title":{"rendered":"Merkin seeks to dismiss Madoff feeder fund lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge fund manager J. Ezra Merkin asked a U.S. judge to dismiss a class-action lawsuit accusing him of recklessly funneling millions of dollars in client funds to now-imprisoned Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff.<\/p>\n<p>In a filing late Monday in Manhattan federal court, Merkin said the plaintiff investors cannot show that he and his Gabriel Capital Corp investment advisory affiliate &#8220;knew about, much less participated in, the Madoff fraud.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSLNE67301U20100804\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge fund manager J. Ezra Merkin asked a U.S. judge to dismiss a class-action lawsuit accusing him of recklessly funneling millions of dollars in client funds to now-imprisoned Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff. In a filing late Monday in [&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-17061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17061","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=17061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17062,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17061\/revisions\/17062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}