USA v. Nordlicht et al
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1:16-cr-00640
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May 17, 2019
Platinum Exec Says Co-Founder Misled Investors
A former Platinum Partners executive on Friday told a New York federal jury that the firm's co-founder and others misled potential investors about the financial health of Platinum's main fund while the hedge fund manager was struggling to pay back tens of millions of dollars to its limited partners.
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May 15, 2019
Ex-Platinum Exec Tells Jury He Conned Investors
A former Platinum Partners executive on Wednesday told jurors he lied to existing and prospective investors in the hedge fund manager's largest fund, the second former insider to testify at trial about misconduct at Platinum's highest levels.
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May 08, 2019
Platinum Jury Told Of Investor's Failed Bid To Reclaim Cash
An investor in a Platinum Partners fund on Wednesday told jurors weighing the fate of top executives of the former hedge fund manager of how he tried in vain for months to pull his $1.125 million stake in the fund, only to be stymied by Platinum insiders.
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May 07, 2019
In Reversal, Ex-Platinum Boss Released After Night In Jail
Former Platinum Partners co-founder Mark Nordlicht was ordered released from custody on Tuesday, a day after the New York federal judge presiding over his securities fraud trial revoked his bond for accosting a prosecutor.
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May 06, 2019
Ex-Platinum Boss Jailed Over Altercation With Prosecutor
A New York federal judge revoked Platinum Partners co-founder Mark Nordlicht's bail on Monday in the wake of an allegedly curse-filled and intimidating encounter the former hedge fund executive had last week with one of the prosecutors in his securities fraud trial.
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May 02, 2019
Platinum Exec Facing Jail Over Trial Blowup With Prosecutor
The trial of former Platinum Partners executives accused of defrauding investors in the hedge fund manager took a turn for the bizarre on Thursday, after Platinum co-founder Mark Nordlicht got into an altercation with a prosecutor that may land him in jail.
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May 01, 2019
Platinum Execs' Attys Grill Cooperator On Investor Docs
Attorneys for former Platinum Partners executives charged with defrauding the $1 billion hedge fund manager's investors sought to turn the tables on a former executive testifying for the government on Wednesday, using fund documents given to investors to press their case that Platinum was an aboveboard operation.
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April 30, 2019
Platinum COO Gives Mixed Reasons For Leaving Hedge Fund
A former chief operating officer for Platinum Partners was confronted on the stand Tuesday over his different stories about why he left the hedge fund management firm, as a defense attorney for Platinum's indicted founder began cross-examining the trial's first cooperating witness.
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April 29, 2019
Ex-Platinum COO Tells Jury Execs Were In On Investor Fraud
The former chief operating officer for Platinum Partners on Monday took the witness stand in the criminal trial of three executives accused of defrauding the investors of the now-defunct $1 billion hedge fund, telling the jury he was in on the scheme.
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April 26, 2019
Ex-AG Mukasey Won't Testify At Platinum Founder's Trial
A New York federal judge accused Platinum Partners co-founder Mark Nordlicht on Friday of trying to "dazzle" a jury by having former U.S. Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey testify at his criminal trial, knocking down a subpoena targeting Mukasey and another attorney at Debevoise & Plimpton.