{"id":21487,"date":"2011-03-25T08:05:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T12:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=21487"},"modified":"2011-03-25T08:05:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T12:05:56","slug":"defense-raj-is-a-real-standup-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2011\/defense-raj-is-a-real-standup-guy.html","title":{"rendered":"Defense &#8211; Raj is a Real Standup Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Post &#8211; Raj Rajaratnam, the New York hedge fund billionaire on trial in Manhattan federal court on insider trading charges, is such a jokester that friends, colleagues and business executives talking with him shouldn&#8217;t believe everything he says, according to defense lawyers, who quizzed one witness yesterday on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>Rajaratnam was merely joking when he told his close pal and Intel executive, Rajiv Goel, that he once gave two Intel tipsters BMWs, defense lawyer Terence Lyman said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/business\/defense_raj_is_real_standup_guy_pYElEM1vm5PRfi7GmIoVGL\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Post &#8211; Raj Rajaratnam, the New York hedge fund billionaire on trial in Manhattan federal court on insider trading charges, is such a jokester that friends, colleagues and business executives talking with him shouldn&#8217;t believe everything he says, [&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-21487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21487","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=21487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21488,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21487\/revisions\/21488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}