{"id":60578,"date":"2017-10-25T08:32:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T12:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=60578"},"modified":"2017-10-25T08:32:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T12:32:20","slug":"lawyers-slam-key-witness-in-ex-nyc-union-heads-bribery-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2017\/lawyers-slam-key-witness-in-ex-nyc-union-heads-bribery-trial.html","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers Slam Key Witness in Ex-NYC Union Head&#8217;s Bribery Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Lawyers defending the former head of New York City\u2019s correction officers\u2019 union and a co-founder of defunct hedge fund Platinum Partners in a federal bribery trial told jurors on Tuesday that prosecutors\u2019 star witness was a liar.The witness, Jona Rechnitz, is expected to testify that he helped arrange bribes to Norman Seabrook, who once led the Correction Officers\u2019 Benevolent Association, in exchange for the investment of $20 million of union funds in Platinum. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-corruption-platinum\/lawyers-slam-key-witness-in-ex-nyc-union-heads-bribery-trial-idUSKBN1CT18Z\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Lawyers defending the former head of New York City\u2019s correction officers\u2019 union and a co-founder of defunct hedge fund Platinum Partners in a federal bribery trial told jurors on Tuesday that prosecutors\u2019 star witness was a liar.The witness, Jona [&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-60578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60578","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=60578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60579,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60578\/revisions\/60579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}