{"id":41031,"date":"2014-03-07T07:10:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T12:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=41031"},"modified":"2014-03-07T07:10:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T12:10:39","slug":"star-witness-against-ex-madoff-aides-a-liar-lawyer-tells-jury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2014\/star-witness-against-ex-madoff-aides-a-liar-lawyer-tells-jury.html","title":{"rendered":"Star witness against ex-Madoff aides a liar, lawyer tells jury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; The government&#8217;s star witness in the criminal trial of five former\u00a0Bernard Madoffemployees is a lifelong liar whose &#8220;mind-boggling&#8221; history of falsehoods robs him of any credibility, a lawyer for one defendant told a federal jury on Thursday [March 6].<\/p>\n<p>Larry Krantz, who represents computer programmer\u00a0George Perez, said former Madoff lieutenant\u00a0Frank DiPascali\u00a0was a &#8220;con man&#8217;s con man&#8221; who made a career out of deceiving regulators, customers and auditors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeworld.com\/open_news\/read_newsletter_aa.cgi?section=dail&amp;story=dail23285.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; The government&#8217;s star witness in the criminal trial of five former\u00a0Bernard Madoffemployees is a lifelong liar whose &#8220;mind-boggling&#8221; history of falsehoods robs him of any credibility, a lawyer for one defendant told a federal jury on Thursday [March [&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-41031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41031","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=41031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41032,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41031\/revisions\/41032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}