{"id":10434,"date":"2009-04-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"feds-charge-dreier-conspirator-in-hedge-fund-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2009\/feds-charge-dreier-conspirator-in-hedge-fund-fraud.html","title":{"rendered":"Feds Charge Dreier Conspirator In Hedge Fund Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>North Country Gazette &#8211; A former registered broker with the National Association of Securities Dealers has been charged in a criminal information with conspiracy, securities fraud and wire fraud stemming from his participation with attorney Marc Dreier in the sale of fictitious promissory notes to various hedge funds. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Kosta Kovachev, 57, is charged with one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and wire fraud, one count of securities fraud, and one count of wire fraud. &nbsp;The Government also seeks to forfeit the funds Kovachev received from Dreier as payment for his fraudulent activities.&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.northcountrygazette.org\/2009\/04\/22\/dreier_fraud\/\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Country Gazette &#8211; A former registered broker with the National Association of Securities Dealers has been charged in a criminal information with conspiracy, securities fraud and wire fraud stemming from his participation with attorney Marc Dreier in the sale [&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":[2110,10796,4552,10800,10801,10797,10803,4576,10802,6265,1634],"class_list":["post-10434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-conspiracy","tag-country-gazette","tag-dreier","tag-fraudulent-activities","tag-national-association-of-securities","tag-north-country","tag-participation","tag-promissory-notes","tag-securities-dealers","tag-securities-fraud","tag-wire-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10434","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=10434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}