{"id":10229,"date":"2009-03-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-hotshot-robert-mercer-files-lawsuit-over-2m-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2009\/hedge-fund-hotshot-robert-mercer-files-lawsuit-over-2m-model.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund hotshot Robert Mercer files lawsuit over $2M model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Daily News &#8211; A hedge fund hotshot&#8217;s lawsuit over a toy railroad setup sounds more like the great train robbery than Thomas the Tank Engine.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Mercer is accusing the builder of overcharging him by nearly $2 million for the elaborate HO-scale model railroad constructed and installed in his Long Island mansion. <\/p>\n<p>Mercer, 62, contends in a federal suit that the correct amount due for labor and materials is more like $704,669, according to the complaint filed in Central Islip Federal Court. Mercer&#8217;s lawyer Steven Pinks confirmed the figures are not typos, but declined to comment further. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/2009\/03\/31\/2009-03-31_hedge_fund_hotshot_robert_mercer_files_l-2.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Daily News &#8211; A hedge fund hotshot&#8217;s lawsuit over a toy railroad setup sounds more like the great train robbery than Thomas the Tank Engine. Robert Mercer is accusing the builder of overcharging him by nearly $2 million [&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":[],"class_list":["post-10229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229","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=10229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}