{"id":9489,"date":"2008-12-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"attorney-paid-cohorts-to-help-execute-swindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2008\/attorney-paid-cohorts-to-help-execute-swindle.html","title":{"rendered":"Attorney paid cohorts to help execute swindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Daily News &#8211; Disgraced Park Ave. lawyer Marc Dreier gave fellow scamsters $100,000 to impersonate others in calls to victims, Manhattan federal prosecutors said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The new details emerged at a bail hearing for former broker Kosta Kovachev, 57, arrested yesterday for allegedly helping Dreier try to steal some $100 million from hedge fund managers. <\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say Kovachev pretended to be a real estate developer&#8217;s controller in an October sitdown with hesitant hedge fund managers. Kovachev also impersonated the developer&#8217;s CEO in a conference call, prosecutors say. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/ny_crime\/2008\/12\/24\/2008-12-24_feds_attorney_paid_cohorts_to_help_execu.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Daily News &#8211; Disgraced Park Ave. lawyer Marc Dreier gave fellow scamsters $100,000 to impersonate others in calls to victims, Manhattan federal prosecutors said Tuesday. The new details emerged at a bail hearing for former broker Kosta Kovachev, [&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":[310,1563,137,4552,4547,4555,2222,4554,124,327,4550,4549,4551,4548,4553],"class_list":["post-9489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-100-million","tag-ceo","tag-conference-call","tag-dreier","tag-federal-prosecutors","tag-fellow","tag-hedge-fund-managers","tag-impersonate","tag-lawyer","tag-manhattan","tag-new-details","tag-new-york-daily-news","tag-park-ave","tag-real-estate-developer","tag-york-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489","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=9489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}