{"id":14191,"date":"2010-02-19T10:12:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T14:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=14191"},"modified":"2010-02-19T10:15:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T14:15:08","slug":"extortion-for-dummies-rabbi-allegedly-targeted-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2010\/extortion-for-dummies-rabbi-allegedly-targeted-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Extortion For Dummies? Rabbi Allegedly Targeted Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; One case that broke last night promises to be yet another attention-grabber. It involves a Jewish Orthodox rabbi from Brooklyn, a yet-unnamed Connecticut hedge fund and a call the rabbi made to the U.S. attorney\u2019s office as part of an alleged shake-down of the fund.<\/p>\n<p>The case came to a head on Thursday, when the fund allegedly paid out $4 million at the direction of Milton Balkany, the rabbi who has been known as a Republican fundraiser and is nicknamed the \u201cBrooklyn Bundler.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Balkany, 63 years old, said after his bail hearing Thursday night that he previously was accused of wrongdoing, and \u201cthe government had to back off then,\u201d according to this <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703983004575074221645026944.html?mod=googlenews_wsj&amp;mg=com-wsj\" target=\"blank\">WSJ story<\/a>. \u201cThis thing is much more ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/law\/2010\/02\/19\/extortion-for-dummies-rabbi-allegedly-targeted-hedge-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; One case that broke last night promises to be yet another attention-grabber. It involves a Jewish Orthodox rabbi from Brooklyn, a yet-unnamed Connecticut hedge fund and a call the rabbi made to the U.S. attorney\u2019s office as part [&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-14191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191","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=14191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14193,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191\/revisions\/14193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}