{"id":5661,"date":"2007-02-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"former-hedge-fund-executive-enters-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2007\/former-hedge-fund-executive-enters-plea.html","title":{"rendered":"Former Hedge Fund Executive Enters Plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times &#8211; The former head of Idaho hedge-fund company, Wood River Capital Management, pleaded not guilty yesterday to securities fraud and other charges after investors lost at least $88million when two of its funds collapsed in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>  John H. Whittier, Wood River\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s majority shareholder and principal executive, entered his plea through his lawyer at a hearing in federal court in Manhattan before Federal District Judge Jed S,  Rakoff.<\/p>\n<p>  A lawyer for Mr. Whittier declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>  Last week, Mr. Whittier was charged with securities fraud and three counts of failing to disclose a beneficial interest in publicly traded securities above certain thresholds.<\/p>\n<p>  The Securities and Exchange Commission initially brought civil charges against Mr. Whittier and Wood River in October 2005.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/02\/09\/business\/09fund.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times &#8211; The former head of Idaho hedge-fund company, Wood River Capital Management, pleaded not guilty yesterday to securities fraud and other charges after investors lost at least $88million when two of its funds collapsed in 2005. John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}