{"id":6672,"date":"2007-10-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hormones-and-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2007\/hormones-and-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Hormones and Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  &nbsp;A junior trader at one of the world&#8217;s largest hedge funds, SAC Capital, is suing the company. Andrew Tong alleges that his boss Ping Jiang\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153the two men are 37 and 41 years old,  respectively\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153forced him to take estrogen hormone pills and wear a dress to work. This was supposedly to feminize him and make him a better trader. Tong also alleges that he was sexually assaulted  while at work. If this is the first you&#8217;ve heard of this affair, background can be found at the Wall St. tabloid DealBreaker.com.<\/p>\n<p>  A spokesperson for SAC Capital said that the charges against the company were &#8220;scurrilous&#8221; and &#8220;false&#8221;, and Tong never called the police regarding the alleged sexual assault. The Equal Employment  Opportunity Commission is investigating, however, and Tong&#8217;s lawyer says that his client has medical documentation that he ingested estrogen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/7-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2007\/10\/14\/hormones_and_he.php&amp;cid=1121994229&amp;ei=73QTR_yxNoT20QGU9ISBDg\"><strong>ReadComplete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;A junior trader at one of the world&#8217;s largest hedge funds, SAC Capital, is suing the company. Andrew Tong alleges that his boss Ping Jiang\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153the two men are 37 and 41 years old, respectively\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153forced him to take estrogen hormone pills [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}