{"id":53943,"date":"2016-08-17T09:51:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T13:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=53943"},"modified":"2016-08-17T09:51:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T13:51:19","slug":"u-s-charges-gabonese-man-for-bribe-scheme-involving-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2016\/u-s-charges-gabonese-man-for-bribe-scheme-involving-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Charges Gabonese Man For Bribe Scheme Involving Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) A Gabonese man who consulted for a joint venture involving a U.S. hedge fund was arrested on Tuesday on charges that he participated in a scheme to bribe officials in Africa to obtain mining rights.Samuel Mebiame, who authorities say worked as a &#8220;fixer&#8221; for the joint venture and one of its mining companies, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Brooklyn for conspiring to violate the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint did not name the fund, but its description matched that of Och-Ziff Capital Management, which has been in talks with the U.S. authorities to resolve probes into its involvement in bribes paid to African officials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-corruption-mebiame-idUSKCN10R29U\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) A Gabonese man who consulted for a joint venture involving a U.S. hedge fund was arrested on Tuesday on charges that he participated in a scheme to bribe officials in Africa to obtain mining rights.Samuel Mebiame, who authorities say [&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-53943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53943","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=53943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53944,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53943\/revisions\/53944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}