{"id":4071,"date":"2006-03-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"sec-lawsuit-accuses-hedge-fund-investors-of-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2006\/sec-lawsuit-accuses-hedge-fund-investors-of-fraud.html","title":{"rendered":"SEC lawsuit accuses hedge fund investors of fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Chicago Sun-Times &#8211; The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission claims in a lawsuit Thursday that an investment adviser placed investors&#8217; money in a fraudulent hedge fund.<\/p>\n<p>  The SEC filed the lawsuit against Sharon E. Vaughn and her investment advisory company, Directors Financial Group Ltd. The suit claims Vaughn and her group founded and managed a private hedge fund  called Directors Performance Fund LLC and told investors in a memo that the fund would be managed to maximize returns using an approved system of trading and investment management.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/1-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/business\/sec02.html&amp;cid=1104741333\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Sun-Times &#8211; The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission claims in a lawsuit Thursday that an investment adviser placed investors&#8217; money in a fraudulent hedge fund. The SEC filed the lawsuit against Sharon E. Vaughn and her investment advisory company, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}