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Bear Stearns duo lied 'over and over again', court hears

Source: The Guardian
New York City : NY : USA | about 1 month ago  
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  • Matthew Tannin,an ex-Bear Stearns hedge fund manager, arrives at Brooklyn Federal Court in New York
    Matthew Tannin,an ex-Bear Stearns hedge fund manager, arrives at ...
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  • Ralph Cioffi, an ex-Bear Stearns hedge fund manager, arrives at Brooklyn Federal Court in New York
    Ralph Cioffi, an ex-Bear Stearns hedge fund manager, arrives at ...
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Matthew Tannin,an ex-Bear Stearns hedge fund manager, arrives at ...
A pair of maverick Bear Stearns hedge fund managers lied to clients "over and over again" to protect their multimillion dollar pay cheques, exchanging secret emails to orchestrate a $1.6bn fraud as their funds imploded in the global financial crisis , a US jury heard yesterday.
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  • News Source: The Independent | about 1 month ago
    I was also very nervous about the state of the market and how we are going to perform...I was worried that this would all end badly and that I would have to look for work." Email from Cioffi to a team economist, 15 March 2007, Subject line: "Fear": "...
  • News Source: The Guardian | about 1 month ago
    A pair of maverick Bear Stearns hedge fund managers lied to clients "over and over again" to protect their multimillion dollar pay cheques, exchanging secret emails to orchestrate a $1.6bn fraud as their funds imploded in the global financial crisis ,...
  • News Source: Asian Wall Street Journal | about 1 month ago
    This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only...Two former hedge fund managers for Bear Stearns "lied over and over" to investors to keep them from withdrawing money, prosecutors told a jury during opening statements in a trial that began...
  • News Source: International Business Times | about 1 month ago
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  • News Source: Palm Beach Post | about 1 month ago
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  • News Source: International Herald Tribune | about 1 month ago
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    Jury selection began today for the trial of Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, the two Bear Stearns fund managers charged with promoting their hedge funds as healthy while privately worrying that they were "toast," and Judge Frederic Block has already
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    His first transfer on the 23rd moved $2 million of his $6 million investment into another Bear Stearns hedge fund, called “Structured Risk Partners,” or “SRP,” a fund that Ralph would become responsible for overseeing days later as of April 1
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