{"id":4112,"date":"2006-03-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"bu-graduate-in-hiding-after-taking-money-and-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2006\/bu-graduate-in-hiding-after-taking-money-and-running.html","title":{"rendered":"BU graduate in hiding after taking money and running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sun and Press &#8211; Here&#8217;s a Binghamton University alumnus who won&#8217;t be listed with Tony Kornheiser, Paul Reiser, Billy Baldwin or Camille Paglia as distinguished graduates.<\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"articletext\">You won&#8217;t read about him in the university&#8217;s Alumni News or its weekly newspaper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"articletext\">But you can read about him on the front page of last Thursday&#8217;s Wall Street Journal. And you can be sure the university won&#8217;t ask for publication rights to the  story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"articletext\">That&#8217;s because this graduate is accused of bilking investors of up to $185 million in an Atlanta-based hedge fund.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"articletext\">Some of his investors included high-profile Atlanta professionals along with a collection of National Football League players.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"articletext\">Kirk S. Wright proudly boasts on the Web site for International Management Associates LLC that he is an &#8220;honored&#8221; graduate of Binghamton University, where he received his  bachelor&#8217;s degree in political science, and then went on to obtain a master&#8217;s in public administration from Harvard University. Binghamton University officials on Friday confirmed that Wright is a  graduate as claimed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressconnects.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060312\/BUSINESS\/603120302\/1002\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sun and Press &#8211; Here&#8217;s a Binghamton University alumnus who won&#8217;t be listed with Tony Kornheiser, Paul Reiser, Billy Baldwin or Camille Paglia as distinguished graduates. You won&#8217;t read about him in the university&#8217;s Alumni News or its weekly newspaper. [&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-4112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112","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=4112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}