{"id":52661,"date":"2016-05-16T08:59:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T12:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=52661"},"modified":"2016-05-16T08:59:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T12:59:10","slug":"the-vultures-vultures-how-a-new-hedge-fund-strategy-is-corrupting-washington-and-its-paying-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2016\/the-vultures-vultures-how-a-new-hedge-fund-strategy-is-corrupting-washington-and-its-paying-off.html","title":{"rendered":"The Vultures\u2019 Vultures: How A New Hedge-Fund Strategy Is Corrupting Washington&#8230;&#8230;And it\u2019s paying off."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(The Huffington Post) Hedge funds are waging lobbying wars that would boost their profits by billions of dollars. Take Robert Shapiro. A Harvard-trained political economist, Shapiro is the head of a consulting firm called Sonecon. That business card doesn\u2019t do it for you? He\u2019s got a few more in his wallet: Shapiro, it turns out, is but one foot soldier in the hedge fund infantry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/vulture-fund-lobbying_us_57350001e4b077d4d6f2a374\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The Huffington Post) Hedge funds are waging lobbying wars that would boost their profits by billions of dollars. Take Robert Shapiro. A Harvard-trained political economist, Shapiro is the head of a consulting firm called Sonecon. That business card doesn\u2019t do [&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-52661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52661","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=52661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52662,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52661\/revisions\/52662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}