{"id":57238,"date":"2017-03-28T08:37:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T12:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=57238"},"modified":"2017-03-28T08:37:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T12:37:28","slug":"man-sentenced-for-setting-up-fake-hedge-fund-and-stealing-more-than-half-million-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2017\/man-sentenced-for-setting-up-fake-hedge-fund-and-stealing-more-than-half-million-dollars.html","title":{"rendered":"Man Sentenced For Setting up Fake Hedge Fund and Stealing More Than Half Million Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(NBC News) A former FedEx driver and the founder and chief investment officer of a local management firm was sentenced to more than two years in prison for stealing more than half a million dollars from local investors. Joshua Knaup, 41, opened up an investment management fund, EquityPro Capital, in Downtown San Diego after he lost his job at FedEx.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, he claimed to have started &#8220;The F2 Fund&#8221; and duped victims into investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in the non-existent hedge fund. In one instance, he convicted Bankers Hill couple, Lois and Henry Mathews to invest $240,000 during a celebration for the couple&#8217;s wedding anniversary. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/california\/Man-Sentenced-For-Setting-up-Fake-Hedge-Fund-and-Stealing-More-Than-Half-Million-Dollars-417245923.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(NBC News) A former FedEx driver and the founder and chief investment officer of a local management firm was sentenced to more than two years in prison for stealing more than half a million dollars from local investors. Joshua Knaup, [&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-57238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57238","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=57238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57239,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57238\/revisions\/57239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}