{"id":65743,"date":"2018-09-16T00:10:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T04:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=65743"},"modified":"2018-09-18T01:23:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T05:23:11","slug":"king-of-political-intelligence-sentenced-to-prison-for-insider-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2018\/king-of-political-intelligence-sentenced-to-prison-for-insider-trading.html","title":{"rendered":"\u2018King of Political Intelligence\u2019 Sentenced to Prison for Insider Trading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Bloomberg) A one-time &#8220;King of Political Intelligence&#8221; got a year in prison for insider trading &#8212; a sentence that sends a warning to Washington consultants that profiting from government secrets can be as risky as trading on confidential company information. David Blaszczak, 42, a Washington consultant who was convicted of giving two hedge funds advance word on changes to Medicare reimbursement rates, was also ordered to forfeit $727,500 and to spend another 12 months under house arrest. A federal jury in May found that he provided the clients with tips he picked up from ex-colleagues still in the government. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-09-13\/-king-of-political-intelligence-gets-one-year-in-insider-case\">To read this article: <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) A one-time &#8220;King of Political Intelligence&#8221; got a year in prison for insider trading &#8212; a sentence that sends a warning to Washington consultants that profiting from government secrets can be as risky as trading on confidential company information. [&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-65743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65743","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=65743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65744,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65743\/revisions\/65744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}