{"id":9501,"date":"2008-12-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"nyu-latest-victim-in-madoff-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2008\/nyu-latest-victim-in-madoff-debacle.html","title":{"rendered":"NYU Latest Victim in Madoff Debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; New York University is the latest victim in Bernard Madoff&rsquo;s web of lies, claiming it lost $24 million in a fund of fund that invested with the infamous Ponzi schemer.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">According to a complaint filed Christmas Eve in a Manhattan court, J. Esra Merkin invested NYU&rsquo;s money with Madoff through two of his funds, Gabriel Capital LP and Ariel Fund Ltd., without telling investors and without performing proper due diligence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Gabriel Capital, which manages approximately $1.5 billion, is planning to liquidate in light of the Madoff losses and because the fund posted losses this year of around 39 percent.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A Manhattan judge has barred Merken from liquidated Ariel until a hearing set for January 6<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; NYU said it had about $94 million invested in the Ariel Fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">NYU spokesman John Beckham explained that Merkin &ldquo;was explicitly told this was not a proper investment vehicle,&rdquo; when he brought up Madoff.&nbsp; According to NYU however, Merkin had already invested the money with him. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Madoff was arrested on December 11<sup>th<\/sup> after an alleged confession to his sons in which he admitted that his firm was one &ldquo;giant Ponzi scheme.&rdquo;&nbsp; It is estimated that investors will lose a total of $50 billion, making this the largest Wall Street scam in history.<\/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 <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/news\/12\/news\/11\/news\/11\/news\/11\/news\/11\/news\/10\/news\/10\/news\/03\/\">www.hedgeco.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for Hedge Funds!<br \/>Be sure to check out our sister sites. <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundlounge.com\/\">www.hedgefundlounge.com<\/a>, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundtools.com\/\">www.hedgefundtools.com<\/a>, and <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundemployment.com\/\">www.hedgefundemployment.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; New York University is the latest victim in Bernard Madoff&rsquo;s web of lies, claiming it lost $24 million in a fund of fund that invested with the infamous Ponzi schemer.&nbsp; According to a complaint filed Christmas [&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":[1004,4331,4662,4669,4393,4666,4668,4665,4660,4155,4664,2176,4248,4403,4667,4661,4663],"class_list":["post-9501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news","tag-accredited-investors","tag-bernard-madoff","tag-christmas-eve","tag-esra","tag-hedgeco","tag-investment-vehicle","tag-january-6th","tag-latest-victim","tag-manhattan-judge","tag-manhattan-court","tag-merkin","tag-new-york-university","tag-ponzi-scheme","tag-proper-due-diligence","tag-schemer","tag-spokesman-john","tag-web-of-lies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501","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=9501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}