{"id":20406,"date":"2011-02-04T09:13:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T13:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=20406"},"modified":"2011-02-04T09:14:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T13:14:56","slug":"guy-albert-de-chimay-pleads-guilty-to-7-million-hedge-fund-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2011\/guy-albert-de-chimay-pleads-guilty-to-7-million-hedge-fund-scheme.html","title":{"rendered":"Guy Albert de Chimay Pleads Guilty To $7 Million Hedge Fund Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Former New York hedge fund manager, Guy Albert de Chimay, pleaded guilty this week to grand larceny and running a $7 million Ponzi scheme.\u00a0He was arrested in June, 2010, in North Carolina and charged with securities fraud.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Guy-Albert-de-Chimay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20437\" title=\"Guy Albert de Chimay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Guy-Albert-de-Chimay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a>&#8220;This case is a classic example of the type of financial criminal activity that exploded in an era of selfishness,&#8221; Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said, according to FINalternatives. &#8220;The defendant used his distant connection to the Chimay royal family to gain the trust of his victims\u2014his friends\u2014before ripping them off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chimay was\u00a0originally\u00a0accused of stealing $6 million from high net worth and institutional investors. He has been charged by the SEC with using a bridge-loan facility he had set up in order to run a multi-million-dollar Ponzi scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The SEC said that the investor money also was fraudulently used to pay Chimay\u2019s massive credit card bills as well as Chimay Capital\u2019s rent and payroll, and to pay off disgruntled counterparties in Chimay\u2019s other business ventures.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2009, Chimay sought a multi-million dollar bank loan on the basis of false representations that he had $13 million in liquid assets in a Bermuda bank account. The account balance was actually zero.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no evidence that any bridge loans were actually made, and investments were instead used to make mortgage payments on Chimay\u2019s multi-million dollar home in the Hamptons and pay more than $500,000 to the law firm representing Chimay in a divorce proceeding.\u201d The SEC said.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for\u00a0<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\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Former New York hedge fund manager, Guy Albert de Chimay, pleaded guilty this week to grand larceny and running a $7 million Ponzi scheme.\u00a0He was arrested in June, 2010, in North Carolina and charged with securities [&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-20406","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\/20406","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=20406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20439,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20406\/revisions\/20439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}