{"id":7136,"date":"2008-02-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"mathur-rejects-plea-bargain-instead-faces-twenty-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2008\/mathur-rejects-plea-bargain-instead-faces-twenty-years.html","title":{"rendered":"Mathur Rejects Plea Bargain, Instead Faces 20 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HedgeCo.Net (West Palm Beach) &#8211; A massachusettes man who defrauded investors out of millions has rejected a plea bargain that could have cut his prison sentence in half.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Arthur Mathur, 37, who could face 20 years in prison, promised investors big returns on real estate investments and provided them with false statements of returns.<\/p>\n<p>Mathur, of Entrust Capital Management was indicted in 2005 and charged with 20 counts of mail and wire fraud.&nbsp; There were 20 investors involved who placed over $16 million into the fund.&nbsp; When Mathur was charged, only $800,000 of the original investments were left.&nbsp; While some of Mathur&#8217;s real estate deals actually did make money, he squandered most of the profits for personal gains. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some of the luxuries that Mathur indulged in included heavy casino gambling in Vegas and Atlantic City, a Porsche Cayenne, and season tickets to the New England Patriots. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Julie Scuderi<br \/>Contributing Editor for HedgeCo.Net<br \/>Email: julie@hedgeco.net<\/p>\n<p>HedgeCo.Net is a premier hedge fund database and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership on <a target=\"_self\" href=\"..\/news\/01\/\">www.hedgeco.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for Hedge Funds!<br \/>Be sure to check out our sister sites. <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundlounge.com\/\">www.hedgefundlounge.com<\/a>, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundtools.com\/\">www.hedgefundtools.com<\/a>, and <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundemployment.com\/\">www.hedgefundemployment.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HedgeCo.Net (West Palm Beach) &#8211; A massachusettes man who defrauded investors out of millions has rejected a plea bargain that could have cut his prison sentence in half.&nbsp; Arthur Mathur, 37, who could face 20 years in prison, promised investors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136","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=7136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}