{"id":8772,"date":"2008-10-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"sec-targets-hedge-fund-swindler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2008\/sec-targets-hedge-fund-swindler.html","title":{"rendered":"SEC Targets Hedge Fund Swindler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; The SEC has targeted hedge funders David Myatt and William Eichengreen, both of Directors Performance Fund, with charges of fraud.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The two men allegedly took $25 million of their investment advisors money and put it into a &ldquo;prime bank&rdquo; scheme.&nbsp; This kind of scheme generally involves investors fraudulent claims that funds will be used to purchase &ldquo;prime&rdquo; financial instruments, usually in overseas markets, with the promise of high returns.&nbsp; Most of the time, neither the instruments nor the markets they supposedly trade on through special &ldquo;access&rdquo; even exist.&nbsp; In this case, Myatt and Eichengreen promised returns in excess of 10% per week with minimum risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Eichengreen then falsified documents pertaining to performance while lying about the fund strategy and asset allocation.&nbsp; The hedge fund also raked in performance fees that were based on the doctored numbers.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Investors in the fund should receive their money back, after a previous suit resulted in the court being responsible for distributing the assets back to investors.&nbsp; Myatt also previously pleaded guilty to an obstruction of justice charge that was brought against him in connection with this hedge fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">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<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; The SEC has targeted hedge funders David Myatt and William Eichengreen, both of Directors Performance Fund, with charges of fraud.&nbsp; The two men allegedly took $25 million of their investment advisors money and put it into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[532,303,3009,1662,3011,110,2052,2225,2385,630,3010],"class_list":["post-8772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news","tag-april-29","tag-brokerages","tag-chief-investment","tag-civil-charges","tag-current-economic-situation","tag-due-diligence-service","tag-ed-rogers","tag-fee-income","tag-quantitative-market","tag-reverse-takeover","tag-scam-artists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772","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=8772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}