{"id":20450,"date":"2011-02-07T07:40:24","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T11:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=20450"},"modified":"2011-02-07T07:40:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T11:40:24","slug":"primary-global-consultant-passed-tips-to-hedge-funds-sec-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2011\/primary-global-consultant-passed-tips-to-hedge-funds-sec-says.html","title":{"rendered":"Primary Global Consultant Passed Tips to Hedge Funds, SEC Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; A\u00a0Primary Global Research LLC consultant facing federal insider-trading charges spoke with at least 11 hedge funds over 14 months and leaked stock tips to some of them, regulators said.<\/p>\n<p>Walter Shimoon, a former\u00a0Flextronics International Ltd. manager who worked as a consultant for Primary Global, was among six people sued Feb. 3 by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. All six were previously arrested and two have pleaded guilty.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-02-05\/primary-global-consultant-passed-tips-to-hedge-funds-sec-says.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; A\u00a0Primary Global Research LLC consultant facing federal insider-trading charges spoke with at least 11 hedge funds over 14 months and leaked stock tips to some of them, regulators said. Walter Shimoon, a former\u00a0Flextronics International Ltd. manager who worked [&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-20450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20450","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=20450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20451,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20450\/revisions\/20451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}