{"id":21879,"date":"2011-04-14T06:43:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T10:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=21879"},"modified":"2011-04-14T06:43:25","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T10:43:25","slug":"waiting-for-superman-hero-defends-hedge-fund-boss-in-insider-trader-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2011\/waiting-for-superman-hero-defends-hedge-fund-boss-in-insider-trader-trial.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Waiting for Superman&#8217; Hero Defends Hedge Fund Boss in Insider Trader Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WNYC &#8211; Renowned educator Geoffrey Canada, who played a key role in the 2010 documentary\u00a0&#8220;Waiting for Superman,&#8221; testified Wednesday on behalf of hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, who is on trial in Manhattan for alleged insider trading.<\/p>\n<p>A high profile New Yorker has testified in the insider trading trial of hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam. WNYC&#8217;s Ilya Marritz reports Harlem Children&#8217;s Zone CEO Geoffrey Canada was called by the defense team.___You couldn&#8217;t ask for a better character witness. Geoffrey Canada is a nationally known educator, a man who&#8217;s widely admired for his commitment to Harlem&#8217;s children.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/blogs\/wnyc-news-blog\/2011\/apr\/13\/renowned-educator-testifies-behalf-accused-inside-trader\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WNYC &#8211; Renowned educator Geoffrey Canada, who played a key role in the 2010 documentary\u00a0&#8220;Waiting for Superman,&#8221; testified Wednesday on behalf of hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, who is on trial in Manhattan for alleged insider trading. A high profile [&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-21879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21879","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=21879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21880,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21879\/revisions\/21880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}