{"id":55080,"date":"2016-11-02T11:24:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T15:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=55080"},"modified":"2016-11-02T11:24:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T15:24:48","slug":"how-a-smooth-talker-convinced-bankers-to-invest-32-million-then-vanished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2016\/how-a-smooth-talker-convinced-bankers-to-invest-32-million-then-vanished.html","title":{"rendered":"How a Smooth Talker Convinced Bankers to Invest $32 Million, Then Vanished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Inside Hong Kong\u2019s posh American Club, few worked a room quite like Avery Stone. Over steak dinners and cigars, Stone charmed a Who\u2019s Who of financiers into investing millions in his fledgling business. Then, earlier this year, everything unraveled&#8211;and he disappeared&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-10-31\/a-list-bankers-ensnared-by-one-of-their-own-in-hong-kong-fiasco\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Inside Hong Kong\u2019s posh American Club, few worked a room quite like Avery Stone. Over steak dinners and cigars, Stone charmed a Who\u2019s Who of financiers into investing millions in his fledgling business. Then, earlier this year, everything unraveled&#8211;and [&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-55080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55080","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=55080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55081,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55080\/revisions\/55081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}