{"id":57782,"date":"2017-05-01T09:18:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T13:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=57782"},"modified":"2017-05-01T09:18:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T13:18:49","slug":"ex-eaton-vance-portfolio-manager-to-plead-guilty-to-fraud-in-u-s-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2017\/ex-eaton-vance-portfolio-manager-to-plead-guilty-to-fraud-in-u-s-court.html","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Eaton Vance portfolio manager to plead guilty to fraud in U.S. court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) A former Eaton Vance Corp portfolio manager has agreed to plead guilty to having engaged in a fraudulent scheme involving call options that enabled him to illegally make $1.9 million, according to papers filed in Boston federal court on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Amell, 45, a onetime vice president at the Boston-based asset management firm, agreed to plead guilty to securities fraud and forfeit $1.95 million as part of a deal in which prosecutors would seek a prison sentence of no more than 27 months, the documents said. A lawyer for Amell did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-eaton-vance-court-amell-idUSKBN17Q234\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) A former Eaton Vance Corp portfolio manager has agreed to plead guilty to having engaged in a fraudulent scheme involving call options that enabled him to illegally make $1.9 million, according to papers filed in Boston federal court on [&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-57782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57782","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=57782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57783,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57782\/revisions\/57783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}