{"id":11696,"date":"2009-09-04T06:47:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T10:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=11696"},"modified":"2009-09-04T06:47:34","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T10:47:34","slug":"diploma-suit-by-conn-hedge-fund-scammer-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2009\/diploma-suit-by-conn-hedge-fund-scammer-dismissed.html","title":{"rendered":"Diploma suit by Conn. hedge fund scammer dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hartford Courant &#8211; A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a man convicted of running a hedge fund scam in Connecticut who claimed <span class=\"taxInlineTagLink\">New York University<\/span> owed him a diploma.<\/p>\n<p>Hakan Yalincak (yal-in-SACK&#8217;), an NYU undergraduate, was sentenced in 2007 to 3 1\/2 years in prison for persuading investors to pour millions into a nonexistent Greenwich-based hedge fund.<\/p>\n<p>His lawsuit against NYU seeks to have F&#8217;s in biology and algebra raised to passing grades so he&#8217;ll have enough credits to graduate.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/local\/statewire\/hc-ap-ct-studentschemesep03,0,3285325.story\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hartford Courant &#8211; A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a man convicted of running a hedge fund scam in Connecticut who claimed New York University owed him a diploma. Hakan Yalincak (yal-in-SACK&#8217;), an NYU undergraduate, was sentenced in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1551,8136,11148,4504],"class_list":["post-11696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-connecticut","tag-greenwich","tag-hedge-fund","tag-investors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11696","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11697,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11696\/revisions\/11697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}