Some hat-tips.
Roddy Boyd has been chasing a dodgy fund manager. Today he got his man: Bryan Caisse was arrested in Bogota Columbia. A lot of work went into that. An excerpt is below:
Bryan Caisse, the former submarine weapons officer turned hedge fund manager, was arrested Saturday in Bogota, Colombia by officers from the Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service.
His name should ring a bell for Southern Investigative Reporting Foundation readers: Caisse was the subject of a December report detailing how the once well-regarded mortgage-bond fund manager disappeared from New York in the autumn, leaving both a daughter and numerous investors from his fund behind and in the dark.
In October, a prosecutor with the New York County District Attorney’s Major Economic Crimes Bureau empaneled a grand jury to investigate a host of allegations surrounding Caisse’s nonpayment of a series of so-called working capital loans to his hedge fund, Huxley Capital Management. Specifically, the prosecutor was interested in unpaid loans from Caisse’s friends and family, many of whom had lent him money on the assurance that there was virtually no risk involved and that it would be repaid with interest in under a year. The Southern Investigative Reporting Foundation obtained documents showing Caisse avoided repaying several of these investors by creating email accounts for a pair of fictitious personal assistants who repeatedly assured the investors a wire transfer was forthcoming or an overnight mail delivery of a check was en route.
Manhattan District Attorney Vance unsealed the charges earlier today.
There is some satisfaction, albeit fleeting, in seeing fraudsters lose their liberty…Â
Today Shawn Richard – the Astarra/Trio fraudster was released from prison. Shawn was the second person imprisoned following tip-offs from your correspondent. [Both original tips came from readers…]Â
There is fine story – maybe too generous to the malefactors – on the Astarra/Trio scandal here. An excerpt is below: 
