{"id":57915,"date":"2017-05-09T08:38:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T12:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=57915"},"modified":"2017-05-09T08:38:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T12:38:15","slug":"mercer-sued-by-hedge-fund-worker-fired-after-blasting-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2017\/mercer-sued-by-hedge-fund-worker-fired-after-blasting-trump.html","title":{"rendered":"Mercer Sued by Hedge Fund Worker Fired After Blasting Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Hedge fund mogul Robert Mercer, one of the biggest financial backers of Donald Trump\u2019s presidential campaign, was sued by a former employee who claims he was fired for calling Mercer racist and publicly criticizing his support of Trump.The complaint by David Magerman, a research scientist who worked at Renaissance Technologies LLC for two decades, alleges he was wrongfully fired April 29 after his relationship with Mercer and his family became toxic. For example, Magerman alleges that Mercer\u2019s daughter, Rebekah Mercer, a member of Trump\u2019s transition team, called him \u201cpond scum\u201d at a celebrity poker tournament.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/politics\/articles\/2017-05-08\/trump-backer-mercer-sued-by-employee-fired-after-speaking-out\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Hedge fund mogul Robert Mercer, one of the biggest financial backers of Donald Trump\u2019s presidential campaign, was sued by a former employee who claims he was fired for calling Mercer racist and publicly criticizing his support of Trump.The complaint [&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-57915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57915","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=57915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57916,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57915\/revisions\/57916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}