{"id":8420,"date":"2008-08-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-fraudster-to-pay-300-million-back-to-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2008\/hedge-fund-fraudster-to-pay-300-million-back-to-investors.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Fraudster to Pay $300 Million Back to Investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Paul Eustace, former head of Philadelphia Alternative Asset Management Company, has been ordered to pay back nearly $300 thanks to his fraudulent ways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">According to a statement by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Canadian resident was able to swindle clients by constructing false account statements and exaggerating the fund&rsquo;s portfolio worth.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Prosecutors alleged that Eustace was able to hide losses from his clientele while the fund experienced trouble from October 2002 to May 2005, when the fund collapsed. &nbsp;He has been indicted on two criminal counts of commodities fraud.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Philadelphia Alternative Asset Management was a commodity fund that was peddled as a hedge fund.&nbsp; Eustace was able to raise about $230 million, despite the fact that his company never traded options or futures on the investor&rsquo;s behalf.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Philadelphia-based law firm of Stradley, Ronon, Stevens &amp; Young will act as the collector and has already recovered $96 million.&nbsp; In addition to returning the money to investors, Eustace has also been ordered to cough up $12 million in civil penalities.<\/p>\n<p>Julie Scuderi<br \/>Senior Editor for HedgeCo.Net<br \/>Email: julie@hedgeco.net <\/p>\n<p>HedgeCo.Net is a premier hedge fund database and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership on www.hedgeco.net is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for Hedge Funds!<br \/>Be sure to check out our sister sites. For more information, visit www.hedgeconetworks.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Paul Eustace, former head of Philadelphia Alternative Asset Management Company, has been ordered to pay back nearly $300 thanks to his fraudulent ways. According to a statement by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Canadian resident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[577,532,303,518,1049,519,818,331,110,2270,65,81,2271,1942,236,2269],"class_list":["post-8420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-fraud","category-hedgeco-news","tag-6-million","tag-april-29","tag-brokerages","tag-capital-structure","tag-chief-financial-officer","tag-commodities-futures-trading-commission","tag-comprehension","tag-downside","tag-due-diligence-service","tag-false-profits","tag-june-14","tag-newcastle","tag-ontario-canada","tag-sales-marketing","tag-trillion","tag-twists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420","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=8420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}