{"id":41052,"date":"2014-03-10T07:48:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T11:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=41052"},"modified":"2014-03-10T07:48:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T11:48:19","slug":"after-big-bet-hedge-fund-pulls-the-levers-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2014\/after-big-bet-hedge-fund-pulls-the-levers-of-power.html","title":{"rendered":"After Big Bet, Hedge Fund Pulls the Levers of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story-continues-1\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-para-count=\"327\" data-total-count=\"327\">NYT &#8211; At a Midtown Manhattan steakhouse last June, William A. Ackman, the activist hedge fund manager who had bet a billion dollars on the collapse of the nutritional supplement company Herbalife, offered his latest evidence to a handful of other hedge fund managers about why the company\u2019s stock could soon plummet.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-para-count=\"218\" data-total-count=\"545\">Mr. Ackman told his dinner companions that Representative Linda T. S\u00e1nchez, Democrat of California, had sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission the previous day calling for an investigation of the company.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-para-count=\"218\" data-total-count=\"545\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/10\/business\/staking-1-billion-that-herbalife-will-fail-then-ackman-lobbying-to-bring-it-down.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT &#8211; At a Midtown Manhattan steakhouse last June, William A. Ackman, the activist hedge fund manager who had bet a billion dollars on the collapse of the nutritional supplement company Herbalife, offered his latest evidence to a handful of [&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-41052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41052","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=41052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41053,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41052\/revisions\/41053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}