{"id":11016,"date":"2009-07-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"lawyer-marc-dreier-sentenced-to-20-years-in-prison-for-700m-hedge-fund-swindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2009\/lawyer-marc-dreier-sentenced-to-20-years-in-prison-for-700m-hedge-fund-swindle.html","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer Marc Dreier sentenced to 20 years in prison for $700M hedge fund swindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Daily News &#8211; Park Avenue&nbsp;lawyer Marc Dreier was sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday by a judge who scolded prosecutors for wanting to jail him for as long as Ponzi swindler Bernard Madoff.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Is the government serious about asking for 145 years?&quot; Manhattan Federal Judge Jed Rakoff asked. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;To me, for the government to ask for 145 years is to demean the sentence Judge [Denny] Chin imposed on Mr. Madoff. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/money\/2009\/07\/14\/2009-07-14_marc_dreier_sentenced_to_20_years_in_prison_for_700m_hedge_fund_swindle.html?FORM=ZZNR5\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Daily News &#8211; Park Avenue&nbsp;lawyer Marc Dreier was sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday by a judge who scolded prosecutors for wanting to jail him for as long as Ponzi swindler Bernard Madoff. &quot;Is the government serious [&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":[4331,4552,6199,13976,8966,124,327,11104,4549,14117,11412,539,11091,14118,4766,4553],"class_list":["post-11016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-bernard-madoff","tag-dreier","tag-federal-judge","tag-jed","tag-judge-denny-chin","tag-lawyer","tag-manhattan","tag-nbsp","tag-new-york-daily-news","tag-news-park","tag-park-avenue","tag-prosecutors","tag-quot","tag-rakoff","tag-swindler","tag-york-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11016","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=11016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37451,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11016\/revisions\/37451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}