{"id":13042,"date":"2009-11-18T09:04:38","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T13:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=13042"},"modified":"2009-11-18T09:04:38","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T13:04:38","slug":"nomos-capital%e2%80%99s-lowe-testifies-he-never-hired-escorts-hit-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2009\/nomos-capital%e2%80%99s-lowe-testifies-he-never-hired-escorts-hit-man.html","title":{"rendered":"Nomos Capital\u2019s Lowe Testifies He Never Hired Escorts, Hit Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Nomos Capital Partners Ltd. founder Mark Lowe said he didn\u2019t take escorts on business trips and didn\u2019t hire a hit-man to kill a former employee who is suing him for sexual discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>Lowe testified yesterday that he \u201ctook exception\u201d to the claims by Jordan Wimmer, who is suing the hedge-fund boss for 4 million pounds ($6.7 million). Lowe told a London employment tribunal that he took girlfriends on trips, not escorts. He admitted to calling Wimmer a \u201cdumb blonde\u201d in front of colleagues, and said he stopped after she complained. Lowe later sent a joke to his staff about a blonde woman who couldn\u2019t tell the difference between corn flakes and a jigsaw puzzle.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=newsarchive&amp;sid=a9u.Cpm2XvB8\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Nomos Capital Partners Ltd. founder Mark Lowe said he didn\u2019t take escorts on business trips and didn\u2019t hire a hit-man to kill a former employee who is suing him for sexual discrimination. Lowe testified yesterday that he \u201ctook [&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":[11148],"class_list":["post-13042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-hedge-fund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13042","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=13042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13044,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13042\/revisions\/13044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}