{"id":26572,"date":"2011-12-22T09:26:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T14:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=26572"},"modified":"2011-12-22T09:26:54","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T14:26:54","slug":"ex-bear-stearns-fund-managers-seek-narrowing-of-sec-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2011\/ex-bear-stearns-fund-managers-seek-narrowing-of-sec-suit.html","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Bear Stearns Fund Managers Seek Narrowing of SEC Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Former Bear Stearns Cos. hedge-fund managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, acquitted in 2009 of criminal charges they misled investors who lost $1.6 billion, asked a federal judge to toss out part of a related civil case brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Cioffi and Tannin, in their request to U.S. District Judge Frederic Block in Brooklyn, New York, made public yesterday, said they can&#8217;t be sued based on statements they didn&#8217;t make and over so-called scheme liability. The request was made in October.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/g\/a\/2011\/12\/22\/bloomberg_articlesLWK45R0YHQ0X.DTL\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Former Bear Stearns Cos. hedge-fund managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, acquitted in 2009 of criminal charges they misled investors who lost $1.6 billion, asked a federal judge to toss out part of a related civil case brought [&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-26572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26572","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=26572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26573,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26572\/revisions\/26573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}