{"id":10582,"date":"2009-05-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"california-investment-agent-pleads-guilty-in-ny-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2009\/california-investment-agent-pleads-guilty-in-ny-probe.html","title":{"rendered":"California Investment Agent Pleads Guilty in NY Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Chronicle &#8211; A Los Angeles businessman has pleaded guilty to corruption charges in a pension fund scandal that began in New York and is heading west. <\/p>\n<p> Julio Ramirez Jr.&#8217;s guilty plea to securities fraud, revealed Tuesday in New York, tightened the connection between that state&#8217;s scandal and the pension fund industry in California. The charges arise from Ramirez&#8217;s work as an unlicensed &quot;placement agent&quot; for Wetherly Capital Group of Los Angeles, a politically connected firm that has secured investment business from CalPERS and CalSTRS. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.americanchronicle.com\/articles\/yb\/129801942\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Chronicle &#8211; A Los Angeles businessman has pleaded guilty to corruption charges in a pension fund scandal that began in New York and is heading west. Julio Ramirez Jr.&#8217;s guilty plea to securities fraud, revealed Tuesday in New York, [&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":[10490,1488,10517,810,11623,7298,11626,4999,11624,217,11627,11091,4590,6265,11625],"class_list":["post-10582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-american-chronicle","tag-businessman","tag-calpers","tag-capital-group","tag-corruption-charges","tag-guilty-plea","tag-heading-west","tag-investment-business","tag-julio-ramirez","tag-pension-fund","tag-placement-agent","tag-quot","tag-scandal","tag-securities-fraud","tag-tuesday-in-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10582","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=10582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}