{"id":58279,"date":"2017-06-01T09:20:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T13:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=58279"},"modified":"2017-06-01T09:19:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T13:19:51","slug":"leon-cooperman-i-settled-with-the-sec-because-im-wealthy-and-an-easy-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2017\/leon-cooperman-i-settled-with-the-sec-because-im-wealthy-and-an-easy-target.html","title":{"rendered":"Leon Cooperman: I Settled With the SEC Because &#8216;I&#8217;m Wealthy&#8217; and an Easy Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(HITC Business) Fresh off a settlement with government regulators regarding insider trading charges, hedge fund titan Leon Cooperman said he would have won the case but chose to settle instead. Cooperman&#8217;s firm agreed earlier this month to a $4.9 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission after allegations of insider trading.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitc.com\/en-gb\/2017\/05\/31\/leon-cooperman-i-settled-with-the-sec-because-im-wealthy-and-an\/\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(HITC Business) Fresh off a settlement with government regulators regarding insider trading charges, hedge fund titan Leon Cooperman said he would have won the case but chose to settle instead. Cooperman&#8217;s firm agreed earlier this month to a $4.9 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58279","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58280,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58279\/revisions\/58280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}