{"id":43540,"date":"2014-08-14T08:28:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T12:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=43540"},"modified":"2014-08-14T08:28:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T12:28:07","slug":"judge-cuts-back-madoff-trustee-lawsuit-against-hedge-fund-manager-merkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2014\/judge-cuts-back-madoff-trustee-lawsuit-against-hedge-fund-manager-merkin.html","title":{"rendered":"Judge cuts back Madoff trustee lawsuit against hedge fund manager Merkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harretz &#8211; The trustee seeking money for Bernard Madoff&#8217;s victims suffered his second loss in less than a week to Wall Street hedge fund manager J. Ezra Merkin, as a Manhattan bankruptcy judge dismissed most claims in a roughly $565 million lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Stuart Bernstein said the trustee Irving Picard failed to show that Merkin knew Madoff was running a giant Ponzi scheme while his &#8220;feeder funds&#8221; were sending money to the swindler&#8217;s firm, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/jewish-world\/jewish-world-news\/1.610434\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harretz &#8211; The trustee seeking money for Bernard Madoff&#8217;s victims suffered his second loss in less than a week to Wall Street hedge fund manager J. Ezra Merkin, as a Manhattan bankruptcy judge dismissed most claims in a roughly $565 [&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-43540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43540","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=43540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43541,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43540\/revisions\/43541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}