{"id":32686,"date":"2012-11-26T08:31:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T13:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=32686"},"modified":"2012-11-26T08:46:20","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T13:46:20","slug":"hedge-fund-fraud-fbi-looking-to-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2012\/hedge-fund-fraud-fbi-looking-to-twitter.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Fraud: FBI Looking To Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/twitter-money-graph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-23485\" title=\"twitter-money-graph\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/twitter-money-graph.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) According to Reuters, &#8220;The\u00a0FBI\u00a0has agents scouring\u00a0Twitter\u00a0and other social networks for tips on securities fraud.&#8221; say agents overseeing a long-running investigation into insider trading in the $2 trillion hedge fund industry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will tell you technology will play a huge part, social media, Twitter (etc).&#8221;\u00a0a FBI special agent\u00a0told Reuters TV in an interview for the Reuters Investment Outlook 2013 Summit.\u00a0&#8220;Any kind of technology that is new&#8230;.. if there is any way to exploit it, these individuals will.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The FBI agent oversees what is called &#8220;Operation Perfect Hedge,&#8221; which has so far led to more than 60 convictions of hedge fund traders, analysts and industry consultants, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) According to Reuters, &#8220;The\u00a0FBI\u00a0has agents scouring\u00a0Twitter\u00a0and other social networks for tips on securities fraud.&#8221; say agents overseeing a long-running investigation into insider trading in the $2 trillion hedge fund industry. &#8220;I will tell you technology will play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-fraud","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32686","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=32686"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32690,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32686\/revisions\/32690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}