{"id":10436,"date":"2009-04-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"disgraced-ny-lawmaker-joins-hedge-fund-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2009\/disgraced-ny-lawmaker-joins-hedge-fund-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Disgraced NY lawmaker joins hedge fund &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Vito Fossella, a former U.S. congressman representing sections of New York until a drunk driving conviction last year, has joined controversial hedge fund Superfund Investment Group, the Staten Island Advance reported this week.        The community newspaper, citing unnamed sources, said Fossella&#8217;s role at the firm was not known. Superfund officials and Fossella were not available for comment.       <\/p>\n<p> Superfund is a managed futures investment firm that wants to make hedge funds available to the masses. Founder Christian Baha, a former Austrian police officer and college drop-out, stars in television commercials that poke fun at his inability to pronounce &quot;investor.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/etfNews\/idUSN2332070920090423\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Vito Fossella, a former U.S. congressman representing sections of New York until a drunk driving conviction last year, has joined controversial hedge fund Superfund Investment Group, the Staten Island Advance reported this week. The community newspaper, citing unnamed [&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":[10816,10820,5800,1067,10822,402,507,4650,4984,10821,4326,10815,10819,10817,10818,10662],"class_list":["post-10436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-austrian-police","tag-baha","tag-congressman","tag-conviction","tag-drunk-driving","tag-investment-firm","tag-investment-group","tag-investor","tag-managed-futures","tag-police-officer","tag-reuters","tag-staten-island-advance","tag-superfund","tag-television-commercials","tag-unnamed-sources","tag-vito-fossella"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10436","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=10436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}