{"id":59669,"date":"2017-08-28T08:44:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T12:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=59669"},"modified":"2017-08-28T08:44:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T12:44:26","slug":"platinum-founders-lawyers-appeal-order-barring-contact-with-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2017\/platinum-founders-lawyers-appeal-order-barring-contact-with-witnesses.html","title":{"rendered":"Platinum Founder&#8217;s Lawyers Appeal Order Barring Contact With Witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Lawyers defending Platinum Partners founder Mark Nordlicht in a $1 billion fraud case have asked a U.S. appeals court to allow them to communicate with potential government witnesses, calling a judge\u2019s order blocking them from doing so unconstitutional. In a brief filed on Wednesday in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Nordlicht\u2019s lawyer said U.S. District Judge Dora Irizarry\u2019s ban on communicating with potential government witnesses was \u201cunprecedented\u201d and \u201cinconsistent with the most basic principles of impartiality and fairness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-platinum-partners-court-idUSKCN1B52AX\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Lawyers defending Platinum Partners founder Mark Nordlicht in a $1 billion fraud case have asked a U.S. appeals court to allow them to communicate with potential government witnesses, calling a judge\u2019s order blocking them from doing so unconstitutional. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59669","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=59669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59670,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59669\/revisions\/59670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}