{"id":9655,"date":"2009-01-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"famed-for-piety-jacob-merkin-put-faith-and-funds-in-bernie-madoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2009\/famed-for-piety-jacob-merkin-put-faith-and-funds-in-bernie-madoff.html","title":{"rendered":"Famed for piety, Jacob Merkin put faith and funds in Bernie Madoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Daily News&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;Jacob Ezra Merkin was once revered as a wizard of Wall Street, an angel of charity and a lion of Judaic studies. <\/p>\n<p>Now he has earned infamy as a destroyer of wealth, a menace to philanthropy, a pariah in some synagogues and a target of a probe by the state attorney general&#8217;s office. <\/p>\n<p>A single unforgivable deed capsized his fortune, reputation and social standing overnight: He embraced a false prophet of profit named Bernard Madoff. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/money\/2009\/01\/17\/2009-01-17_famed_for_piety_jacob_merkin_put_faith_a.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Daily News&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;Jacob Ezra Merkin was once revered as a wizard of Wall Street, an angel of charity and a lion of Judaic studies. Now he has earned infamy as a destroyer of wealth, a menace to philanthropy, a [&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":[5928,5502,5923,5253,5920,3088,5922,5925,5921,5926,4664,4549,716,1798,5919,5924,247,4464,5927,4553],"class_list":["post-9655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-angel","tag-charity","tag-destroyer","tag-ezra","tag-false-prophet","tag-fortune","tag-infamy","tag-jacob","tag-judaic-studies","tag-lion","tag-merkin","tag-new-york-daily-news","tag-pariah","tag-reputation","tag-state-attorney-general","tag-synagogues","tag-target","tag-wall-street","tag-wizard","tag-york-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9655","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=9655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}