{"id":47166,"date":"2015-03-26T07:48:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T11:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=47166"},"modified":"2015-03-26T07:48:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T11:48:09","slug":"imprisoned-hedge-fund-founder-seeks-to-void-insider-trading-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2015\/imprisoned-hedge-fund-founder-seeks-to-void-insider-trading-conviction.html","title":{"rendered":"Imprisoned hedge fund founder seeks to void insider trading conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Former hedge fund manager Doug Whitman, the first defendant in a broad U.S. insider trading crackdown to testify in his own defense, is seeking to void his conviction.<\/p>\n<p>Whitman, 57, who has been imprisoned since early September, on Wednesday joined a swelling list of defendants trying to have their insider trading convictions or guilty pleas thrown out, after a recent federal appeals court decision narrowed the scope of that offense.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/03\/25\/us-usa-insidertrading-whitman-idUSKBN0ML2IZ20150325\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Former hedge fund manager Doug Whitman, the first defendant in a broad U.S. insider trading crackdown to testify in his own defense, is seeking to void his conviction. Whitman, 57, who has been imprisoned since early September, on [&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-47166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47166","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=47166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47168,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47166\/revisions\/47168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}