{"id":30913,"date":"2012-08-28T07:10:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T11:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=30913"},"modified":"2012-08-28T07:10:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T11:10:53","slug":"how-ponzi-schemer-sam-israel-fell-for-conspiracy-scam-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2012\/how-ponzi-schemer-sam-israel-fell-for-conspiracy-scam-review.html","title":{"rendered":"How Ponzi Schemer Sam Israel Fell For Conspiracy Scam: Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; In \u201cOctopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market and Wall Street\u2019s Wildest Con,\u201d Guy Lawson tells two tales. One is a diligently researched, lively account of ambition gone bad. The other, in the book\u2019s second half, is a story of the con artist himself getting scammed in what reads like an episode of \u201cThe Twilight Zone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Israel came from a New Orleans family that owned a commodities trading powerhouse, and wanted to prove that he could make his own financial luck. He worked summers at Frederic J. Graber &amp; Co., a New York brokerage, then dropped out of Tulane University to pursue a Wall Street education.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-08-28\/how-ponzi-schemer-sam-israel-fell-for-conspiracy-scam-review.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; In \u201cOctopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market and Wall Street\u2019s Wildest Con,\u201d Guy Lawson tells two tales. One is a diligently researched, lively account of ambition gone bad. The other, in the book\u2019s second half, is a story [&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-30913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30913","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=30913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30914,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30913\/revisions\/30914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}