{"id":166125,"date":"2026-10-26T15:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T23:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/26\/this-250-lawyer-firm-had-exactly-one-partner-and-he-was-running-a-700-million-fraud\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T15:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T23:48:16","slug":"this-250-lawyer-firm-had-exactly-one-partner-and-he-was-running-a-700-million-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/26\/this-250-lawyer-firm-had-exactly-one-partner-and-he-was-running-a-700-million-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"This 250-Lawyer Firm Had Exactly One Partner\u2026 And He Was Running A $700 Million Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which now-defunct Manhattan law firm, with roughly 250 lawyers and offices in five cities, wasn\u2019t a partnership in the usual sense: it had a single equity partner, who was secretly running one of the great frauds in legal history behind it, peddling hundreds of millions of dollars in fake promissory notes to hedge funds?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: In 2008, the firm founder was arrested in Toronto, for impersonating a pension-fund official in order to sell yet more phony notes, and his firm imploded within days.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/this-250-lawyer-firm-had-exactly-one-partner-and-he-was-running-a-700-million-fraud\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This 250-Lawyer Firm Had Exactly One Partner\u2026 And He Was Running A $700 Million Fraud<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which now-defunct Manhattan law firm, with roughly 250 lawyers and offices in five cities, wasn\u2019t a partnership in the usual sense: it had a single equity partner, who was secretly running one of the great frauds in legal history behind it, peddling hundreds of millions of dollars in fake promissory notes to hedge funds?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: In 2008, the firm founder was arrested in Toronto, for impersonating a pension-fund official in order to sell yet more phony notes, and his firm imploded within days.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/this-250-lawyer-firm-had-exactly-one-partner-and-he-was-running-a-700-million-fraud\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This 250-Lawyer Firm Had Exactly One Partner\u2026 And He Was Running A $700 Million Fraud<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Which now-defunct Manhattan law firm, with roughly 250 lawyers and offices in five cities, wasn\u2019t a partnership in the usual sense: it had a single equity partner, who was secretly running one of the great frauds in legal history behind it, peddling hundreds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}