{"id":27391,"date":"2012-02-14T05:34:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T10:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=27391"},"modified":"2012-02-14T05:34:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T10:34:10","slug":"conn-fraud-lawsuit-details-bribery-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2012\/conn-fraud-lawsuit-details-bribery-in-venezuela.html","title":{"rendered":"Conn. fraud lawsuit details bribery in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AP &#8211; A Connecticut hedge fund adviser carried out a $500 million fraud scheme with help from people in Venezuela, including a manager at the state-owned oil company, according to lawsuits seeking the return of tens of millions of dollars in what they say are bribes and kickbacks.<\/p>\n<p>The payments were uncovered by a receiver&#8217;s investigation into the dealings of Venezuelan-American financier Francisco Illarramendi, whose biggest investment client was a pension fund for state oil workers in the South American country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2012\/feb\/12\/us-hedge-fund-venezuela\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP &#8211; A Connecticut hedge fund adviser carried out a $500 million fraud scheme with help from people in Venezuela, including a manager at the state-owned oil company, according to lawsuits seeking the return of tens of millions of dollars [&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-27391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27391","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=27391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27392,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27391\/revisions\/27392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}