{"id":21869,"date":"2011-04-14T05:47:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T09:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=21869"},"modified":"2011-04-14T05:47:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T09:47:31","slug":"frontpoint-partners%e2%80%99-skowron-is-charged-with-securities-fraud-obstruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2011\/frontpoint-partners%e2%80%99-skowron-is-charged-with-securities-fraud-obstruction.html","title":{"rendered":"FrontPoint Partners\u2019 Skowron Is Charged With Securities Fraud, Obstruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Ex-FrontPoint Partners LLC portfolio manager Chip Skowron joined those accused in a U.S. crackdown on insider trading of\u00a0hedge funds when he was charged with conspiracy, securities fraud and obstruction.<\/p>\n<p>Skowron, 41, of Greenwich, Connecticut, surrendered yesterday to agents at the Federal Bureau of Investigation\u2019s New York office, said James Margolin, an FBI spokesman. Information Skowron obtained from an insider about hepatitis C drug trials enabled FrontPoint to avoid more than $30 million in losses, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-04-13\/frontpoint-partner-chip-skowron-surrenders-to-fbi-in-new-york-u-s-says.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Ex-FrontPoint Partners LLC portfolio manager Chip Skowron joined those accused in a U.S. crackdown on insider trading of\u00a0hedge funds when he was charged with conspiracy, securities fraud and obstruction. Skowron, 41, of Greenwich, Connecticut, surrendered yesterday to agents [&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-21869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21869","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=21869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21871,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21869\/revisions\/21871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}