New York Observer’s Pat Clark writes: Why don’t you go ahead
and make a federal case of it, said one thousand husbands to one thousand
wives, and then one of them went and did. On July 9, a Scarsdale resident named
Elizabeth Bingham-Perry filed a civil RICO action in the U.S. Southern
District’s White Plains courthouse.
Her husband, Jeffrey, an executive at hedge fund marauder
Dan Loeb’s $9 billion Third Point LLC, had engaged in a pattern of criminal
conspiracy, she alleged, committing mail and wire fraud to conceal more than $1
million in assets since he’d first hired a divorce lawyer in 2006. That was
just the beginning. Mr. Perry’s entire career, his wife said, “has been marked
by repeated criminal activity in his quest to amass his fortune.”
And that’s where the complaint took a tabloid turn. To
support her claim, the plaintiff cited Mr. Perry’s status as a defendant in a
2006 lawsuit accusing the hedge funder of participating in a scheme to
manipulate the stock of a Canadian company called Fairfax Financial. Ms.
Bingham-Perry didn’t stop there. She also noted the involvement of three hedge
fund managers—Mr. Loeb, James Chanos and Steven A. Cohen—who were co-defendants
in the Fairfax case.
It hardly matters that all four men had been dismissed from
the Fairfax lawsuit, or that Ms. Bingham-Perry’s complaint will stand or fall
on her charge that Mr. Perry concealed assets. If a judge agrees to hear her
case….
http://observer.com/2012/07/the-spouse-that-roared-hedge-funders-ex-slaps-him-with-rico-charge/
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