{"id":9849,"date":"2009-02-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"amaranth-perella-were-victims-of-dreiers-fraud-us-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2009\/amaranth-perella-were-victims-of-dreiers-fraud-us-says.html","title":{"rendered":"Amaranth, Perella Were Victims of Dreier&#8217;s Fraud, US Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; The victims of Marc Dreier, the New York lawyer charged in a $400 million fraud, included Amaranth Group Inc., Perella Weinberg Partners and Blackstone Group LP&rsquo;s GSO Capital Partners, U.S. prosecutors said. <\/p>\n<p>Government lawyers identified the firms in a court filing in New York on Feb. 9 as three of the 20 institutions they claim are victims of Dreier&rsquo;s thefts. Prosecutors didn&rsquo;t disclose how much it alleges each of the companies lost. <\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say Dreier, 58, persuaded two hedge funds to give him more than $100 million by falsely claiming he was selling notes issued by Sheldon Solow, a New York developer, at a discount. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=newsarchive&#038;sid=aGDLgCK_njf4\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; The victims of Marc Dreier, the New York lawyer charged in a $400 million fraud, included Amaranth Group Inc., Perella Weinberg Partners and Blackstone Group LP&rsquo;s GSO Capital Partners, U.S. prosecutors said. Government lawyers identified the firms in [&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":[310,4483,4481,4552,797,7319,1607,4699,5866,7318,539,6196,6197],"class_list":["post-9849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-100-million","tag-blackstone-group","tag-blackstone-group-lp","tag-dreier","tag-fraud","tag-government-lawyers","tag-gso-capital-partners","tag-institutions","tag-new-york-lawyer","tag-perella-weinberg-partners","tag-prosecutors","tag-sheldon-solow","tag-york-developer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9849","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=9849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}