{"id":12654,"date":"2009-10-26T08:41:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T12:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=12654"},"modified":"2009-10-26T08:41:33","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T12:41:33","slug":"in-defence-of-accused-hedge-fund-billionaire-raj-rajaratnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2009\/in-defence-of-accused-hedge-fund-billionaire-raj-rajaratnam.html","title":{"rendered":"In defence of accused hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian.co.uk &#8211; My coverage of Raj Rajaratnam, the Wall Street hedge fund manager accused of orchestrating a sophisticated insider trading ring with tipsters at firms such as IBM and Intel, has prompted an email from an acquaintance of the accused who says the Sri Lankan-born billionaire is not the &#8220;ogre&#8221; he is being made out to be.<\/p>\n<p>Vijay Dandapani, chief executive of a budget hospitality company in Manhattan called Apple Core Hotels, writes to say that he was invited by Rajaratnam on a cricket trip a few years back and has since seen him &#8220;off and on&#8221; in New York.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do know Raj, though not well, and find it hard to believe that he is the ogre he is being made out to be,&#8221; says Dandapani.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/andrew-clark-on-america\/2009\/oct\/25\/hedge-funds\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian.co.uk &#8211; My coverage of Raj Rajaratnam, the Wall Street hedge fund manager accused of orchestrating a sophisticated insider trading ring with tipsters at firms such as IBM and Intel, has prompted an email from an acquaintance of the accused [&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":[67,15741,37,5725,15983],"class_list":["post-12654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-chief-executive","tag-hedge-fund-billionaire","tag-hedge-fund-manager","tag-insider-trading","tag-raj-rajaratnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12654","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=12654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12656,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12654\/revisions\/12656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}