{"id":39498,"date":"2013-12-10T04:45:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T09:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=39498"},"modified":"2013-12-10T04:45:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T09:45:11","slug":"hedge-fund-guy-cohens-plausible-deniability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2013\/hedge-fund-guy-cohens-plausible-deniability.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge-Fund Guy Cohen&#8217;s Plausible Deniability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; If Mathew Martoma was ever going to strike a deal with the government and turn against his former boss, Steven A. Cohen, he probably would have done it a long time ago. The odds that he ever will look even more remote now.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for Martoma, the former SAC Capital Advisors fund manager, filed excerpts from a May 2012 deposition in which Cohen\u00a0told\u00a0attorneys for the Securities and Exchange Commission that he decided to sell SAC\u2019s stakes in Wyeth and Elan Corp. based on advice from the head of a different hedge fund. Martoma\u2019s insider-trading trial is scheduled to begin next month. His lawyers say the previously undisclosed testimony shows Martoma wasn\u2019t involved in Cohen\u2019s decisions on the trades.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-12-09\/hedge-fund-guy-cohen-s-plausible-deniability.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; If Mathew Martoma was ever going to strike a deal with the government and turn against his former boss, Steven A. Cohen, he probably would have done it a long time ago. The odds that he ever will [&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-39498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39498","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=39498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39499,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39498\/revisions\/39499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}