{"id":52969,"date":"2016-06-09T08:26:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T12:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=52969"},"modified":"2016-06-09T08:24:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T12:24:26","slug":"hedge-fund-manager-arrested-for-paying-kickbacks-to-new-york-union-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2016\/hedge-fund-manager-arrested-for-paying-kickbacks-to-new-york-union-chief.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Manager Arrested For Paying Kickbacks To New York Union Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Forbes) Federal prosecutors in Manhattan on Wednesday unsealed a criminal complaint that claimed a hedge fund manager raised $20 million from a New York City correctional officers union through kickbacks.<\/p>\n<p>Murray Huberfeld, who has been linked to Platinum Partners, was arrested at his home on Wednesday morning. Platinum Partners is a $1.3 billion hedge fund firm built by Mark Nordlicht. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara claims Platinum Partners and Huberfeld are mired in a swamp of dirty transactions where union money, political donations and Wall Street sometimes intersect. Bharara also claims that Huberfeld is a founder and part owner of Platinum Partners and that he may have been playing a leading role at Platinum Partners that the hedge fund firm had not publicly acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/nathanvardi\/2016\/06\/08\/the-hedge-fund-manager-arrested-in-the-fund-raising-probe-of-new-york-mayor-de-blasio\/#35d1373e1834\">To Read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Forbes) Federal prosecutors in Manhattan on Wednesday unsealed a criminal complaint that claimed a hedge fund manager raised $20 million from a New York City correctional officers union through kickbacks. Murray Huberfeld, who has been linked to Platinum Partners, was [&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-52969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52969","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=52969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52970,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52969\/revisions\/52970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}