{"id":10338,"date":"2009-04-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"us-town-claws-back-17m-of-madoff-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2009\/us-town-claws-back-17m-of-madoff-assets.html","title":{"rendered":"US Town Claws Back \u00a317m Of Madoff Assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sky News &#8211; A US town has edged closer towards clawing back its losses to Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff, securing a court order for &pound;17m in assets.<\/p>\n<p>The town of Fairfield in Connecticut suffered losses of about &pound;28m from its pension fund to what has been called the biggest Ponzi scam in history.<\/p>\n<p>Some 1,500 members who are trying to recover retirement money were granted the order to chase the assets from Madoff&#8217;s relatives and business partners.<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/news.sky.com\/skynews\/Home\/Business\/Madoff-Fraud-US-Town-Secures-Order-For-17-Million-Pounds-Worth-Of-Wall-Street-Swindlers-Assets\/Article\/200904215261566%3Flpos%3DBusiness_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_8%26lid%3DARTICLE_15261566_Madoff_Fraud%253A_US_Town_Secures_Order_For_17_Million_Pounds_Worth_Of_Wall_Street_Swindlers_Assets\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/news.sky.com\/skynews\/Home\/Business\/Madoff-Fraud-US-Town-Secures-Order-For-17-Million-Pounds-Worth-Of-Wall-Street-Swindlers-Assets\/Article\/200904215261566%3Flpos%3DBusiness_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_8%26lid%3DARTICLE_15261566_Madoff_Fraud%253A_US_Town_Secures_Order_For_17_Million_Pounds_Worth_Of_Wall_Street_Swindlers_Assets\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/news.sky.com\/skynews\/Home\/Business\/Madoff-Fraud-US-Town-Secures-Order-For-17-Million-Pounds-Worth-Of-Wall-Street-Swindlers-Assets\/Article\/200904215261566%3Flpos%3DBusiness_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_8%26lid%3DARTICLE_15261566_Madoff_Fraud%253A_US_Town_Secures_Order_For_17_Million_Pounds_Worth_Of_Wall_Street_Swindlers_Assets\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sky News &#8211; A US town has edged closer towards clawing back its losses to Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff, securing a court order for &pound;17m in assets. The town of Fairfield in Connecticut suffered losses of about &pound;28m from [&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":[4439,10254,1551,129,217,4803,6186,10253,10252,4766,10251,4464],"class_list":["post-10338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-assets","tag-business-partners","tag-connecticut","tag-losses","tag-pension-fund","tag-ponzi-scam","tag-relatives","tag-retirement-money","tag-sky-news","tag-swindler","tag-town-of-fairfield","tag-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10338","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=10338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}