{"id":16322,"date":"2010-06-21T07:36:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T11:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=16322"},"modified":"2010-06-21T07:43:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T11:43:19","slug":"hedge-fund-founder-gets-over-3-years-for-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2010\/hedge-fund-founder-gets-over-3-years-for-fraud.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Founder Gets Over 3 Years For Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-16323\" title=\"Hedge Fund Fraud\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/criminal-law-274x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/criminal-law-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/criminal-law.jpg 328w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; The New York District Court has sentenced Alan Fishman to 37 months in prison for conspiring to commit securities fraud in a case involving hedge fund A.R. Capital Group Inc., which he founded. Daniel Ledven, also a principal at the hedge fund, was sentenced to 57 months in prison, according to a Bloomberg report.<\/p>\n<p>Fishman was a car-service driver before he launched the hedge fund, Bloomberg reported, which raised about $20 million from investors between 2003 and September 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The money was to be invested in international real estate companies and used for leveraged trading, the hedge fund claimed, although $18 million ended up in bank accounts in the Ukraine.<\/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; The New York District Court has sentenced Alan Fishman to 37 months in prison for conspiring to commit securities fraud in a case involving hedge fund A.R. Capital Group Inc., which he founded. Daniel Ledven, also [&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-16322","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\/16322","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=16322"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16326,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16322\/revisions\/16326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}