{"id":56189,"date":"2017-01-20T09:28:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T14:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=56189"},"modified":"2017-01-20T09:20:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T14:20:16","slug":"ex-visium-fund-manager-convicted-of-fraud-by-manhattan-jury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2017\/ex-visium-fund-manager-convicted-of-fraud-by-manhattan-jury.html","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Visium Fund Manager Convicted of Fraud by Manhattan Jury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) A former portfolio manager at Visium Asset Management LP was convicted of securities fraud on Thursday, following a trial that stemmed from a federal investigation that led to the New York-based hedge fund&#8217;s closure last year. Stefan Lumiere, whose sister was married to Visium founder Jacob Gottlieb when he worked at the hedge fund, was found guilty by a federal jury in Manhattan of conspiracy, securities fraud and wire fraud charges.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict came after less than two hours of deliberations by the 12 jurors. Eric Creizman, Lumiere&#8217;s lawyer, told reporters his client would likely appeal, while Lumiere&#8217;s family reacted angrily to the verdict.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-fraud-idUSKBN1532SP\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) A former portfolio manager at Visium Asset Management LP was convicted of securities fraud on Thursday, following a trial that stemmed from a federal investigation that led to the New York-based hedge fund&#8217;s closure last year. Stefan Lumiere, whose [&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-56189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56189","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=56189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56190,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56189\/revisions\/56190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}