{"id":63567,"date":"2018-05-06T00:12:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T04:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=63567"},"modified":"2018-05-08T00:23:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T04:23:14","slug":"d-c-consultant-among-four-guilty-in-political-intelligence-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2018\/d-c-consultant-among-four-guilty-in-political-intelligence-case.html","title":{"rendered":"D.C. Consultant Among Four Guilty in Political Intelligence Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) A jury\u2019s verdict sent a warning to Washington\u2019s political intelligence industry and funds that rely on it: Trading on government secrets is as risky as using insider corporate information.   David Blaszczak, a Washington consultant who gave hedge funds advance word on Medicare reimbursement rates, was convicted Thursday of stealing secrets from the government and insider trading. A federal jury found that he provided hedge fund clients with tips he learned from ex-colleagues still in the government.Blaszczak, who worked as a consultant after leaving the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, was among four defendants found guilty in Manhattan federal court. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-05-03\/d-c-consultant-among-four-guilty-in-political-intelligence-case\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) A jury\u2019s verdict sent a warning to Washington\u2019s political intelligence industry and funds that rely on it: Trading on government secrets is as risky as using insider corporate information. David Blaszczak, a Washington consultant who gave hedge funds advance [&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-63567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63567","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=63567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63568,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63567\/revisions\/63568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}