Former Bayou Group Fund Manager Goes To Prison

The former funder manager of Bayou Group, Samuel Israel III, surrendered to law enforcement officials and went to prison this week after faking a suicide last month, The New York Times reports. Israel now faces additional charges of bail jumping

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The former funder manager of Bayou Group, Samuel Israel III, surrendered to law enforcement officials and went to prison this week after faking a suicide last month, The New York Times reports.

Israel now faces additional charges of bail-jumping and up to 10 years in prison on top of the 20-year sentence he received in April for swindling $450 million from investors in the Bayou Group, the hedge fund that he helped found.

The full story is available on The New York Times website at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/business/04bayou.html.

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