{"id":23332,"date":"2011-07-05T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=23332"},"modified":"2011-07-05T08:00:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T12:00:57","slug":"atlanta-man-indicted-for-defrauding-investors-in-ponzi-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2011\/atlanta-man-indicted-for-defrauding-investors-in-ponzi-scheme.html","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta man indicted for defrauding investors in ponzi scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBS Atlanta &#8211;\u00a0A 42-year-old Atlanta man made an initial appearance Thursday before a United States Magistrate Judge after being indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of wire fraud and mail fraud arising from a $7 million Ponzi scheme.<\/p>\n<p>According to United States Attorney Yates, from July 2004 through at least March 2008, Charles Michael Vaughn \u00a0recruited at least 25 individuals to invest in a purported &#8220;hedge fund&#8221; operated by his company, &#8220;CM Vaughn, LLC,&#8221; based in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsatlanta.com\/story\/15014260\/atlanta-man-indicted-for-defrauding-investors-in-ponzi-scheme\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS Atlanta &#8211;\u00a0A 42-year-old Atlanta man made an initial appearance Thursday before a United States Magistrate Judge after being indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of wire fraud and mail fraud arising from a $7 million Ponzi scheme. [&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-23332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23332","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=23332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23334,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23332\/revisions\/23334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}