{"id":3386,"date":"2008-07-02T08:19:23","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T16:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3386"},"modified":"2008-07-02T08:21:47","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T16:21:47","slug":"is-this-guy-jewish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3386","title":{"rendered":"Is This Guy Jewish?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I heard Dennis Prager say once that when you hear a murderer is named "Cohen," you’re shocked. When you hear a guy convicted of a white collar crime is named "Cohen," you’re not as surprised.<\/p>\n

NEW YORK (AP)<\/a> — A fugitive hedge-fund swindler who had been on the lam for nearly a month since a faked suicide on a Hudson River bridge surrendered Wednesday in Massachusetts, the U.S. attorney’s office said.<\/p>\n

Samuel Israel turned himself into Southwick, Mass., police between 9:15 and 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, said Suzanne Anderson, police Chief Mark Krynicki’s assistant. She said he was being processed at Southwick Police headquarters and referred all further questions to federal authorities.<\/p>\n

Southwick is 95 miles from the federal prison in Ayer, Mass., where Israel was to report last month to serve his sentence.<\/p>\n

Israel disappeared June 9 on the day he was supposed to report to prison. His car was found on a bridge over the Hudson River with the words "Suicide is Painless" — the title of the theme song for the "MASH" television show — scrawled in dust on the hood.<\/p>\n

Because no body was found beneath the 150-foot-high bridge where his car was abandoned, authorities believed from the start that he faked his disappearance.<\/p>\n

The 48-year-old Israel, a co-founder and chief executive of the now-collapsed Bayou hedge funds, was sentenced in April to 20 years in federal prison for conspiracy and fraud. He was also ordered to pay $300 million to his victims.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said he and two other men persuaded investors to put $450 million into the Stamford, Conn.-based company by announcing nonexistent profits and providing fake audits.<\/p>\n

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