{"id":53855,"date":"2016-08-11T09:05:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T13:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=53855"},"modified":"2016-08-11T09:05:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T13:05:28","slug":"ny-judge-tosses-billionaire-bacons-defamation-case-v-canadas-nygard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2016\/ny-judge-tosses-billionaire-bacons-defamation-case-v-canadas-nygard.html","title":{"rendered":"NY Judge Tosses Billionaire Bacon&#8217;s Defamation Case v Canada&#8217;s Nygard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) A New York state judge on Wednesday threw out billionaire hedge fund manager Louis Bacon&#8217;s $100 million defamation lawsuit against Canadian fashion designer Peter Nygard, saying the case tied to their long-running feud over neighboring properties in the Bahamas belongs there.<\/p>\n<p>Bacon, the founder of Moore Capital Management LP in New York, had accused Nygard in the lawsuit of engineering a &#8220;malicious&#8221; smear campaign against him including street rallies, bogus YouTube videos, and attempts to falsely link him to arson, bribery, drug smuggling, the Ku Klux Klan and murder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-bahamas-nygard-bacon-idUSKCN10L2JZ\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) A New York state judge on Wednesday threw out billionaire hedge fund manager Louis Bacon&#8217;s $100 million defamation lawsuit against Canadian fashion designer Peter Nygard, saying the case tied to their long-running feud over neighboring properties in the Bahamas [&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-53855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53855","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=53855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53856,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53855\/revisions\/53856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}