{"id":72117,"date":"2019-12-11T00:05:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T05:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=72117"},"modified":"2019-12-10T22:59:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T03:59:14","slug":"bayou-hedge-funds-samuel-israel-who-ran-big-ponzi-scheme-fails-to-win-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2019\/bayou-hedge-funds-samuel-israel-who-ran-big-ponzi-scheme-fails-to-win-freedom.html","title":{"rendered":"Bayou hedge fund&#8217;s Samuel Israel, who ran big Ponzi scheme, fails to win freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; The ailing former Bayou hedge fund manager Samuel Israel has lost his bid for an early end to his 22-year prison sentence for running a $450 million fraud, as a U.S. judge found it would make a \u201cmockery\u201d of federal sentencing laws to set him free. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-crime-samuel-israel\/bayou-hedge-funds-samuel-israel-who-ran-big-ponzi-scheme-fails-to-win-freedom-idUSKBN1YD2E3\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; The ailing former Bayou hedge fund manager Samuel Israel has lost his bid for an early end to his 22-year prison sentence for running a $450 million fraud, as a U.S. judge found it would make a \u201cmockery\u201d [&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-72117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72117","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=72117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72118,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72117\/revisions\/72118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}