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Samuel Israel, Hedge Fund Suicide Faker, Seeks Guilty Plea But Is Delayed

Posted 09.07.2008 | Business


WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A hedge-fund swindler accused of faking his own suicide tried to plead guilty Wednesday for going on the lam, but his case ...

Scamming, Death-Faking Hedge Funder Sam Israel's Latest Victim: Goldman Sachs

ClusterStock | Corey Lorinsky | Posted 07.26.2008 | Business


Sam Israel's $250 million fraud and fake suicide are still leaving casualties. Now his defrauded Bayou Hedge Fund investors are trying to recoup some ...

Sam Israel Turned Himself In For Mom, Girlfriend

New York Times | Abha Bhattarai and Nelson D. Schwartz | Posted 07.11.2008 | Business


Samuel Israel III tricked his investors, lied to his lawyers and misled the police. But in the end, he listened to his mother. The fugitive former ma...

Sam Israel Surrenders, Fugitive Hedge Fund Chief In Custody

AP | Posted 07.10.2008 | Business


The Wall Street Journal and Associated Press report that fugitive hedge fund chief Samuel Israel III, who was suspected of faking his suicide on the d...

Fugitive Fund Chief Sam Israel At Large, Identifiable By Bird Tat, Painkiller Addiction: U.S. Marshals

U.S. Marshals | Posted 06.25.2008 | Business


The United States Marshals Service is seeking information in its investigation to locate and apprehend federal fugitive Samuel Israel III. (For larger...

Fugitive Fund Chief Sam Israel At Large, Identifiable By Bird Tat, Painkiller Addiction: U.S. Marshals

U.S. Marshals | Posted 06.25.2008 | Business


The United States Marshals Service is seeking information in its investigation to locate and apprehend federal fugitive Samuel Israel III. (For larger...

Missing Funder Sam Israel Is One Of Two Fugitives Represented By Lawyer

New York Times | Alison Leigh Cowan | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business


Robert G. Morvillo, one of the go-to members of the criminal bar, had some explaining to do this week when two of his law firm's high-profile clients ...

Search For Missing Fund Manager Sam Israel Goes Global

The New York Times | Andrew Ross Sorkin | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business


Authorities in the United States on Friday were trying to determine whether Samuel Israel III, a former hedge fund manager who failed to report to pri...