{"id":57386,"date":"2017-04-06T06:37:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T10:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=57386"},"modified":"2017-04-06T06:37:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T10:37:58","slug":"leon-cooperman-seeks-appeal-that-could-end-sec-insider-trading-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2017\/leon-cooperman-seeks-appeal-that-could-end-sec-insider-trading-case.html","title":{"rendered":"Leon Cooperman Seeks Appeal that Could End SEC Insider Trading Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Reuters) The billionaire hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman has asked a federal judge for permission to immediately appeal a ruling that, if overturned, could spell the end of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission&#8217;s insider trading case against him.<\/p>\n<p>Cooperman and his firm Omega Advisors Inc are seeking to reverse a March 20 ruling that let the SEC pursue civil claims that Cooperman and Omega reaped about $4.09 million of profit in 2010 by trading in Atlas Pipeline Partners LP based on confidential tips from an Atlas executive about a planned asset sale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/us-sec-hedgefunds-omega-cooperman-idUKKBN1772JS\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) The billionaire hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman has asked a federal judge for permission to immediately appeal a ruling that, if overturned, could spell the end of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission&#8217;s insider trading case against him. Cooperman [&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-57386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57386","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=57386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57387,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57386\/revisions\/57387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}