{"id":10189,"date":"2009-03-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"us-fund-manager-challenges-extradition-from-hk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2009\/us-fund-manager-challenges-extradition-from-hk.html","title":{"rendered":"US fund manager challenges extradition from HK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press &#8211; A Silicon Valley hedge fund manager wanted in the U.S. on charges he duped investors out of at least $5 million challenged his extradition from Hong Kong on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Fund manager Albert Hu, an American citizen, told a Hong Kong court through his lawyer that he wanted to exercise his right to see evidence in his case, in which U.S. officials are seeking his extradition to California.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He feels that he must seek evidence (from) the prosecution,&quot; said defense counsel Jonathan Acton-Bond.<\/p>\n<p>Hu had indicated he was willing to surrender to the U.S. during his first court appearance last week, according to Hong Kong&#8217;s Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jOpnm98swJe0nBLdGbKd2Y-182VAD974TCVO0\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press &#8211; A Silicon Valley hedge fund manager wanted in the U.S. on charges he duped investors out of at least $5 million challenged his extradition from Hong Kong on Wednesday. Fund manager Albert Hu, an American citizen, [&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":[411,9594,9595,9596,7873,9576,37,9599,4504,1713,9593,124,9598,2916],"class_list":["post-10189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-5-million","tag-american-citizen","tag-court-appearance","tag-defense-counsel","tag-department-of-justice","tag-hedge-funds-waiting-to-invest-300-billion-report","tag-hedge-fund-manager","tag-hong-kong-court","tag-investors","tag-jonathan","tag-jonathan-acton","tag-lawyer","tag-prosecution","tag-silicon-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}