{"id":20717,"date":"2011-02-21T07:41:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T12:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=20717"},"modified":"2011-02-21T07:41:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T12:41:47","slug":"brooklyn-rabbi-sentenced-to-four-years-for-extorting-4-million-from-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2011\/brooklyn-rabbi-sentenced-to-four-years-for-extorting-4-million-from-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn rabbi sentenced to four years for extorting $4 million from hedge fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Daily News &#8211; A Brooklyn rabbi convicted of extorting $4 million from a hedge fund was sentenced Friday to four years in prison.\u00a0Milton Balkany, 64, who headed a religious day school for girls in Borough Park, faced up to nine years in prison, but Manhattan Federal Court Judge Denise Cote said she took into account the rabbi&#8217;s good deeds.<\/p>\n<p>A lower sentence &#8220;would be appropriate based on a lifetime of good works and generosity for those in need and people who are the forgotten of society, the most unfortunate among us,&#8221; Cote said, citing 87 letters written on Balkany&#8217;s behalf.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/ny_crime\/2011\/02\/18\/2011-02-18_brooklyn_rabbi_sentenced_to_four_years_for_extorting_4_million_from_hedge_fund.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Daily News &#8211; A Brooklyn rabbi convicted of extorting $4 million from a hedge fund was sentenced Friday to four years in prison.\u00a0Milton Balkany, 64, who headed a religious day school for girls in Borough Park, faced up [&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-20717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20717","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=20717"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20719,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20717\/revisions\/20719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}