{"id":56932,"date":"2017-03-08T07:32:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T12:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=56932"},"modified":"2017-03-08T07:32:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T12:32:56","slug":"secs-hamilton-ponzi-case-expands-to-dylan-mccartney-harry-potter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2017\/secs-hamilton-ponzi-case-expands-to-dylan-mccartney-harry-potter.html","title":{"rendered":"SEC&#8217;s &#8216;Hamilton&#8217; Ponzi Case Expands to Dylan, McCartney, Harry Potter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Entertainment featuring Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones and even Harry Potter are now part of a U.S. regulator&#8217;s expanded lawsuit accusing two New York men of running a Ponzi scheme centered on the resale of tickets to events such as the smash Broadway musical &#8220;Hamilton.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In an amended civil complaint filed on Tuesday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Joseph Meli, 42, and Matthew Harriton, 52, raised more than $97 million from at least 138 investors in 17 U.S. states as part of their scheme.<\/p>\n<p>That is up from $81 million raised from at least 125 investors in 13 states when the alleged fraud was made public in January.<\/p>\n<p>To read this article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-crime-ponzi-hamilton-idUSKBN16E2S8\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Entertainment featuring Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones and even Harry Potter are now part of a U.S. regulator&#8217;s expanded lawsuit accusing two New York men of running a Ponzi scheme centered on the resale of tickets to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56932","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56933,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56932\/revisions\/56933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}