Tag Archives: accounting-firm
Lehman’s U.K. Administrator Seeks to Return Hedge-Fund Assets
Bloomberg – Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. may return hedge-fund assets as soon as next year that were frozen when the New York-based securities firm collapsed in the largest bankruptcy on record. PricewaterhouseCoopers, Lehman Brothers International Europe’s administrator, plans today to […]
Hedge fund founder used phony firm, returns: authorities
Reuters – A hedge fund manager overstated values by hundreds of millions of dollars, set up a phony accounting firm and showed uniformly positive returns for nine years to defraud investors, U.S. authorities said on Wednesday. James Nicholson, 42, founder […]
Chutzpah Spree by Accused Lawyer Nets $380 Million
Bloomberg – When Manhattan lawyer Marc Dreier needed to apply a patina of reality to allegedly bogus promissory notes he was pitching to hedge funds, he used Mission Impossible- type tricks. As the U.S. Attorneys Office in Manhattan tells it, […]
Colorado Hedge Fraudster Will Serve 24 Years
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Hamilton Alan Bird, formerly of XL Capital Partners, who headed the scheme that swindled over $7.5 million of investors’ money, has been sentenced to 24 years in prison. The Colorado Springs resident received his fate on […]
False Asset Statments Lead to Conviction
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net)- Kirk Wright’s Atlanta-based hedge fund company, International Management Associates, was found to be fraudlent leading to the conviction of the manager, Wright, as the Department of Justice unsealed a March 10 criminal complaint against him. "The […]
