{"id":69861,"date":"2019-06-26T01:36:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T05:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=69861"},"modified":"2019-06-28T02:50:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T06:50:27","slug":"lawyer-for-platinum-partners-founder-assails-prosecutors-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2019\/lawyer-for-platinum-partners-founder-assails-prosecutors-lies.html","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer for Platinum Partners founder assails prosecutors&#8217; &#8216;lies&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; A lawyer for Mark Nordlicht, founder of defunct hedge fund firm Platinum Partners, assailed U.S. prosecutors at Nordlicht\u2019s criminal trial on Wednesday, suggesting they deliberately misled jurors to boost their careers. \u201cI\u2019m going to show you lies told to you by the government,\u201d Jose Baez told the jury during a fiery closing argument in Brooklyn federal court, where Nordlicht faces charges of defrauding investors. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-hedgefunds-trial\/lawyer-for-platinum-partners-founder-assails-prosecutors-lies-idUSKCN1TR36S\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; A lawyer for Mark Nordlicht, founder of defunct hedge fund firm Platinum Partners, assailed U.S. prosecutors at Nordlicht\u2019s criminal trial on Wednesday, suggesting they deliberately misled jurors to boost their careers. \u201cI\u2019m going to show you lies told [&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-69861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69861","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=69861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69862,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69861\/revisions\/69862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}