{"id":40719,"date":"2014-02-20T05:57:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T10:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=40719"},"modified":"2014-02-20T05:57:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T10:57:24","slug":"whitman-capital-founder-loses-appeal-on-insider-trading-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2014\/whitman-capital-founder-loses-appeal-on-insider-trading-conviction.html","title":{"rendered":"Whitman Capital founder loses appeal on insider trading conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; California hedge fund manager\u00a0Doug Whitman, the first defendant in the broad U.S. crackdown on insider trading to take the stand in his own defense, on Wednesday [Feb. 19] failed to persuade a federal appeals court to overturn his conviction.<\/p>\n<p>The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Whitman&#8217;s arguments that the insider trading conviction was tainted because the trial judge instructed jurors improperly and refused to admit various testimony from experts and witnesses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeworld.com\/open_news\/read_newsletter_aa.cgi?section=dail&amp;story=dail23214.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; California hedge fund manager\u00a0Doug Whitman, the first defendant in the broad U.S. crackdown on insider trading to take the stand in his own defense, on Wednesday [Feb. 19] failed to persuade a federal appeals court to overturn his [&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-40719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40719","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=40719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40720,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40719\/revisions\/40720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}