{"id":51766,"date":"2016-03-07T09:15:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T14:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=51766"},"modified":"2016-03-07T09:15:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T14:15:48","slug":"the-madoff-mystery-victims-who-left-2-5-billion-on-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2016\/the-madoff-mystery-victims-who-left-2-5-billion-on-the-table.html","title":{"rendered":"The Madoff Mystery: Victims Who Left $2.5 Billion on the Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Ever since Bernie Madoff\u2019s Ponzi scheme collapsed it\u2019s been much-rumored that investors included tax dodgers shielding money from the IRS, drug dealers who laundered proceeds through the con man and wealthy moguls hiding assets from ex-spouses. After all, the scheme wiped out $20 billion of investors\u2019 money, but the victims\u2019 claims for repayment total just $17.5 billion. Who would walk away from $2.5 billion, and why?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-03-04\/the-mystery-madoff-victims-who-left-2-5-billion-on-the-table\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Ever since Bernie Madoff\u2019s Ponzi scheme collapsed it\u2019s been much-rumored that investors included tax dodgers shielding money from the IRS, drug dealers who laundered proceeds through the con man and wealthy moguls hiding assets from ex-spouses. After all, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51766","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51767,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51766\/revisions\/51767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}