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- Blast from the Past – Brian Hunter and Amaranth’s Manipulation
Does anyone remember Brian Hunter? Just a few short years ago he was the famed (or is it infamous?) Amaranth lead energy trader who allegedly tanked the firm via massive trading losses. In a famous case of where was the risk manager – in September 2006 Amaranth collapsed after approximately $6 billion in losses in [...]
- A Due Diligence Quagmire: Merkin’s Day in Court
APRIL 6, 2009 Andrew Cuomo (New York’s attorney general) and son of Mario Cuomo (former NY governor who is now on the Willkie Farr & Gallagher payroll) filed a complaint today charging J. Ezra Merkin (a Harvard Law School graduate) and his Gabriel Capital Corporation (the Ascot, Gabriel and Ariel funds) with civil fraud charges [...]
- Ex-Morgan Exec Focused on Due Diligence: Corgentum Consulting
April 3, 2009 From HedgeFund.Net: A onetime Morgan Stanley higher-up opened a hedge fund consulting firm on Thursday. Jason Scharfman characterized his Corgentum Consulting as a provider of operational due diligence, noting the need for due diligence has been brought to the fore via the Bernard Madoff scandal. Scharfman went to state that due diligence [...]
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