{"id":12468,"date":"2009-10-12T07:21:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T11:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=12468"},"modified":"2009-10-12T07:21:28","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T11:21:28","slug":"boris-johnson-accused-over-hedge-funds-election-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2009\/boris-johnson-accused-over-hedge-funds-election-donations.html","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson accused over hedge funds&#8217; election donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian.co.uk &#8211; Boris Johnson, who is leading the fight against a European crackdown on City financiers, faced accusations of being &#8220;bought off&#8221; today, when it emerged that more than half the money donated to his mayoral campaign came from the financial sector including hedge funds and private equity.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has criticised the EU&#8217;s so-called &#8220;hedge fund directive,&#8221; draft rules published in the spring which would limit debt levels for alternative investment managers, such as hedge funds, and force them to be more transparent.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2009\/oct\/11\/boris-johnson-hedge-funds-accusations\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian.co.uk &#8211; Boris Johnson, who is leading the fight against a European crackdown on City financiers, faced accusations of being &#8220;bought off&#8221; today, when it emerged that more than half the money donated to his mayoral campaign came from the [&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":[7078,1837,11708,5297],"class_list":["post-12468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-alternative-investment","tag-financial-sector","tag-hedge-funds","tag-investment-managers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12468","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=12468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12469,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12468\/revisions\/12469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}