{"id":60004,"date":"2017-09-20T09:49:15","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T13:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=60004"},"modified":"2017-09-20T09:49:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T13:49:15","slug":"a-mysterious-hedge-fund-just-scooped-up-the-foreclosed-medallions-from-new-york-citys-taxi-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2017\/a-mysterious-hedge-fund-just-scooped-up-the-foreclosed-medallions-from-new-york-citys-taxi-king.html","title":{"rendered":"A Mysterious Hedge Fund Just Scooped Up the Foreclosed Medallions From New York City&#8217;s &#8216;Taxi King&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(The Business Insider) A fleet of Evgeny &#8220;Gene&#8221; Freidman&#8217;s foreclosed taxi medallions sold on Monday in a closed-door auction taking place in a Queens, New York hotel&#8230;.The individual bidders behind buyer MGPE Inc. are not identified in court filings but are part of a hedge fund and are expected to lease the medallions out to fleet operators, according to Crain&#8217;s and verified with an industry source&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nyc-taxi-king-foreclosed-medallions-scooped-up-by-hedge-fund-2017-9\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The Business Insider) A fleet of Evgeny &#8220;Gene&#8221; Freidman&#8217;s foreclosed taxi medallions sold on Monday in a closed-door auction taking place in a Queens, New York hotel&#8230;.The individual bidders behind buyer MGPE Inc. are not identified in court filings but [&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-60004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60004","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=60004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60005,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60004\/revisions\/60005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}