{"id":14186,"date":"2010-02-18T10:45:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T14:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=14186"},"modified":"2010-02-18T10:45:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T14:45:01","slug":"firestone-flees-moscow-%e2%80%98mafia%e2%80%99-police-as-browder-affair-widens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2010\/firestone-flees-moscow-%e2%80%98mafia%e2%80%99-police-as-browder-affair-widens.html","title":{"rendered":"Firestone Flees Moscow \u2018Mafia\u2019 Police as Browder Affair Widens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Jamison Firestone, who spent 18 years helping U.S. companies navigate Russia\u2019s legal system, said he fled the country because he\u2019s the next target of \u201cmafia\u201d law-enforcement officials he says were responsible for the death of his colleague Sergei Magnitsky.<\/p>\n<p>Firestone, 44, a U.S. citizen and former board member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia, said Interior Ministry officials made two attempts to obtain $21 million in taxes that a company he\u2019s a director of paid to the government. He said the perpetrators forged his signature and corporate seals to seek tax rebates, similar to the $230 million in claims made by funds expropriated from Hermitage Capital Management, a $1 billion investment firm run by his client William Browder.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=newsarchive&amp;sid=a75BfbH3Vyhw\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Jamison Firestone, who spent 18 years helping U.S. companies navigate Russia\u2019s legal system, said he fled the country because he\u2019s the next target of \u201cmafia\u201d law-enforcement officials he says were responsible for the death of his colleague Sergei [&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":[],"class_list":["post-14186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14186","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=14186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14187,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14186\/revisions\/14187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}