{"id":64374,"date":"2018-06-27T01:10:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T05:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=64374"},"modified":"2018-06-27T01:10:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T05:10:01","slug":"conviction-of-sacs-martoma-upheld-despite-jury-instructions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2018\/conviction-of-sacs-martoma-upheld-despite-jury-instructions.html","title":{"rendered":"Conviction Of SAC&#8217;s Martoma Upheld Despite Jury Instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) A divided federal appeals court on Monday upheld the insider trading conviction of Mathew Martoma, a former portfolio manager for billionaire Steven A. Cohen, finding enough evidence to establish guilt despite defective jury instructions. In an unusual 2-1 decision, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which had upheld Martoma\u2019s conviction and nine-year prison term in August 2017, withdrew its finding at that time that the jury instructions were \u201cnot obviously erroneous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-sac-insidertrading-martoma\/conviction-of-sacs-martoma-upheld-despite-jury-instructions-idUSKBN1JL1XH\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) A divided federal appeals court on Monday upheld the insider trading conviction of Mathew Martoma, a former portfolio manager for billionaire Steven A. Cohen, finding enough evidence to establish guilt despite defective jury instructions. In an unusual 2-1 decision, [&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-64374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64374","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=64374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64375,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64374\/revisions\/64375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}