{"id":12857,"date":"2009-11-13T00:25:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T08:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=12857"},"modified":"2009-11-13T00:45:29","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T08:45:29","slug":"australian-businessman-accused-of-fraud-flees-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=12857","title":{"rendered":"Australian Businessman Accused of Fraud Flees Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jweekly.com\/breaking\/jta\/news\/article\/2009\/11\/11\/1009122\/australian-businessman-flees-home\">The JTA reports<\/a>:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) &#8212; A Jewish businessman accused of defrauding investors  of $1.7 billion reportedly has left his home in Sydney fearing for his  safety.<\/p>\n<p>South African-born Barry Tannenbaum has &ldquo;relocated to what he  perceives to be a safer location,&rdquo; his lawyer, Darryl Ackerman, said Tuesday in  an interview with Bloomberg, adding that his client was not fleeing  prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>South African authorities issued an arrest warrant for  Tannenbaum last month along with his Swiss-based associate Dean Rees, who also  is implicated in the Ponzi scheme. The scheme is believed to have duped about  800 investors in several countries who allegedly were promised returns of up to  200 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Tannenbaum, whose assets also have been frozen in South  Africa, denied the &ldquo;wild allegations&rdquo; as &ldquo;conjecture and speculation&rdquo; when the  alleged scheme was revealed in June.<\/p>\n<p>The Sydney Morning Herald tracked  him down to Sydney&rsquo;s North Shore, where he had been living with his family for  several years. His&nbsp;children attended the local Jewish school and Tannenbaum had  been a member of an Orthodox synagogue.<\/p>\n<p>Tannenbaum, who comes from a  family of well-known philanthropists in South Africa, is pictured on the  Lubavitch.org Web site holding a Torah scroll he helped donate to a Chabad house  in South Africa in 2006.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The JTA reports:&nbsp;&nbsp; SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) &#8212; A Jewish businessman accused of defrauding investors of $1.7 billion reportedly has left his home in Sydney fearing for his safety. South African-born Barry Tannenbaum has &ldquo;relocated to what he perceives to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=12857\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,165,18818],"tags":[19895,5146,3555,30471,19896,19898,1910,4084,11668,19897,2555,12893,16498],"class_list":["post-12857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-chabad","category-yisroel-pensack","tag-barry-tannenbaum","tag-bloomberg","tag-chabad-house","tag-fraud","tag-jewish-businessman","tag-lubavitch-org","tag-orthodox-synagogue","tag-philanthropists","tag-ponzi-scheme","tag-south-african","tag-sydney-australia","tag-sydney-morning-herald","tag-torah-scroll"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12859,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12857\/revisions\/12859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}