{"id":16308,"date":"2010-06-18T07:10:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T11:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=16308"},"modified":"2010-06-18T07:10:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T11:10:16","slug":"uk-hedge-fund-srms-case-against-countrywide-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2010\/uk-hedge-fund-srms-case-against-countrywide-dismissed.html","title":{"rendered":"UK Hedge Fund SRM&#8217;s Case Against Countrywide Dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; London hedge  fund SRM Global&#8217;s case against Countrywide Financial Corp, the mortgage  lender acquired by Bank of  America, was dismissed yesterday according to a Reuters article.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/bankruptcy-attorney.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16309\" title=\"bankruptcy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/bankruptcy-attorney.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a>The  hedge fund alleged that Countrywide was &#8220;flying blind&#8221; and had made  misrepresentations and  omissions, delaying disclosure of its  problems in the U.S. housing market fall, Reuters said. The hedge fund  said it lost  nearly 90% of its value in 50 million shares of Countrywide  common stock in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan federal court Judge Richard  Berman said, &#8220;The hedge fund failed to plead facts  showing a  primary violation of the securities laws,&#8221; dismissing the lawsuit,  which also identified Countrywide, Bank of America and former BOFA  Chief Executive Officer Ken Lewis, former Countrywide Chief Executive Officer Angelo Mozilo, company  President David Sambol and Executive Managing Director Eric Sieracki as defendants, the news source  reported.<\/p>\n<p>The three former Countrywide executives are also  defendants in an SEC civil fraud lawsuit, Reuters said.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; London hedge fund SRM Global&#8217;s case against Countrywide Financial Corp, the mortgage lender acquired by Bank of America, was dismissed yesterday according to a Reuters article. The hedge fund alleged that Countrywide was &#8220;flying blind&#8221; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-fraud","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16308","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=16308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16311,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16308\/revisions\/16311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}