{"id":19851,"date":"2011-01-07T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=19851"},"modified":"2011-01-07T08:10:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T12:10:22","slug":"hedge-fund-tech-consultant-arrested-after-refusing-to-cooperate-with-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2011\/hedge-fund-tech-consultant-arrested-after-refusing-to-cooperate-with-fbi.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Tech Consultant Arrested After Refusing To Cooperate With FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/winifred-jiau.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-19856\" title=\"winifred-jiau\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/winifred-jiau-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/winifred-jiau-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/winifred-jiau.jpg 366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Winifred Jiau, the only technology consultant who was denied bail in last week&#8217;s Government clampdown on insider trading at hedge funds is reported to have spoken to Reuters after her arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Jiau says she was asked by FBI agents to cooperate in the probe a couple weeks before she was arrested, Reuters reported. &#8220;Initially the FBI just wanted me to be a cooperating witness,&#8221; Jiau said. Now she is being held on charges of conspiracy and securities fraud and facing a 25 year sentence. She has not yet entered a plea.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution alleges that Jiau gained $200,000 by selling information. She is scheduled to appear in court again on Jan. 12.<\/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; Winifred Jiau, the only technology consultant who was denied bail in last week&#8217;s Government clampdown on insider trading at hedge funds is reported to have spoken to Reuters after her arrest. Jiau says she was asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-fraud","category-hedge-fund-regulation","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19851","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=19851"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19853,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19851\/revisions\/19853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}