{"id":20899,"date":"2011-03-01T05:21:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T10:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=20899"},"modified":"2011-03-01T05:21:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T10:21:23","slug":"big-short-author-sued-by-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2011\/big-short-author-sued-by-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Big Short&#8217; Author Sued by Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TheStreet &#8211; The author of &#8220;The Big Short,&#8221; Michael Lewis, his publisher W.W. Norton &amp; Company, and FrontPoint Partners&#8217; Steve Eisman are being sued for defamation by Wing Chau and his Harding Advisory.<\/p>\n<p>Chau, a collateralized debt obligation (CDO) specialist, alleges that Lewis made false statements in his book about the mortgage meltdown in which he is portrayed as a &#8220;villian,&#8221; that is responsible for the financial crisis, according to Reuters article cites court documents.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/story\/11025895\/1\/big-short-author-sued-by-hedge-fund.html?cm_ven=GOOGLEN\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TheStreet &#8211; The author of &#8220;The Big Short,&#8221; Michael Lewis, his publisher W.W. Norton &amp; Company, and FrontPoint Partners&#8217; Steve Eisman are being sued for defamation by Wing Chau and his Harding Advisory. Chau, a collateralized debt obligation (CDO) specialist, [&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-20899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20899","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=20899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20900,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20899\/revisions\/20900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}