{"id":25591,"date":"2011-10-24T07:11:31","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T11:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=25591"},"modified":"2011-10-24T07:11:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T11:11:31","slug":"the-outsider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2011\/the-outsider.html","title":{"rendered":"The Outsider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Beast &#8211; In an exclusive interview, Raj Rajaratnam reveals his surprising motivations\u2014and the reasons he didn\u2019t take a plea that could have saved him from 11 years in jail.<\/p>\n<p>It was 6 a.m. on Oct. 16, 2009, and Raj Rajaratnam, head of the Galleon Group hedge fund, was at home on his exercise bike looking out over Manhattan\u2019s Turtle Bay, thinking about how many shirts he would have to pack for his trip to England that day. He was to go there to launch a $200 million fund to invest in the Sri Lankan stock market, in which he, the richest Sri Lankan on the planet, was the biggest single investor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/newsweek\/2011\/10\/23\/exclusive-raj-rajaratnam-reveals-why-he-didn-t-take-a-plea.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Beast &#8211; In an exclusive interview, Raj Rajaratnam reveals his surprising motivations\u2014and the reasons he didn\u2019t take a plea that could have saved him from 11 years in jail. It was 6 a.m. on Oct. 16, 2009, and [&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-25591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25591","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=25591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25593,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25591\/revisions\/25593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}