{"id":41286,"date":"2014-03-24T07:52:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T11:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=41286"},"modified":"2014-03-24T07:53:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T11:53:20","slug":"u-s-judge-oks-jpmorgan-218-million-madoff-class-action-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2014\/u-s-judge-oks-jpmorgan-218-million-madoff-class-action-settlement.html","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Judge OKs JP Morgan $218 Million Madoff Class-action Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; A federal judge on Friday [March 21] gave final approval to JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co.&#8217;s $218 million settlement to resolve class-action litigation accusing the largest U.S. bank of playing a central role in the huge Ponzi scheme of former client\u00a0Bernard Madoff.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon in Manhattan said the accord &#8220;easily meets the standards&#8221; for final approval, and provides &#8220;substantial and immediate&#8221; benefits to the swindler&#8217;s former customers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeworld.com\/open_news\/read_newsletter_aa.cgi?section=dail&amp;story=dail23334.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; A federal judge on Friday [March 21] gave final approval to JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co.&#8217;s $218 million settlement to resolve class-action litigation accusing the largest U.S. bank of playing a central role in the huge Ponzi scheme 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-41286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41286","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=41286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41288,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41286\/revisions\/41288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}