{"id":22344,"date":"2011-05-09T07:14:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T11:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=22344"},"modified":"2011-05-09T07:14:45","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T11:14:45","slug":"venezuelan-accountant-pleads-guilty-in-conn-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2011\/venezuelan-accountant-pleads-guilty-in-conn-fraud.html","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan accountant pleads guilty in Conn. fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Las Vegas Sun &#8211; A Venezuelan accountant pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges that he helped a Connecticut-based hedge fund adviser attempt to cover up a massive, five-year pyramid scheme that could cost investors hundreds of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Juan Carlos Guillen Zerpa was accused of falsifying a document to throw off federal investigators targeting Francisco Illarramendi, a Venezuelan-American financier who used unregistered hedge funds in Stamford, Conn., as cover for one of the biggest frauds in state history.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2011\/may\/09\/us-hedge-fund-venezuela\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Las Vegas Sun &#8211; A Venezuelan accountant pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges that he helped a Connecticut-based hedge fund adviser attempt to cover up a massive, five-year pyramid scheme that could cost investors hundreds of millions of dollars. Juan Carlos [&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-22344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22344","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=22344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22345,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22344\/revisions\/22345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}