{"id":21603,"date":"2011-03-31T06:08:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T10:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=21603"},"modified":"2011-03-31T06:08:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T10:08:04","slug":"venezuelan-workers-caught-up-in-conn-ponzi-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2011\/venezuelan-workers-caught-up-in-conn-ponzi-scheme.html","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan workers caught up in Conn. Ponzi scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek &#8211; The fallout from the biggest white-collar federal prosecution in Connecticut is being felt a continent away in Venezuela, where the government had invested hundreds of millions of dollars from a state oil workers&#8217; pension fund with a now disgraced financier.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. prosecutors say Venezuelan-American Francisco Illarramendi (EE&#8217;-yah-rah-mehn-dee) used unregistered hedge funds in Stamford, Conn., as cover for a massive Ponzi scheme with exclusively overseas clients.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/ap\/financialnews\/D9M9M4U81.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek &#8211; The fallout from the biggest white-collar federal prosecution in Connecticut is being felt a continent away in Venezuela, where the government had invested hundreds of millions of dollars from a state oil workers&#8217; pension fund with a now [&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-21603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21603","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=21603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21604,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21603\/revisions\/21604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}