Investors in a troubled hedge fund founded by Corey Ribotsky were told by the funds’ liquidator last week their hopes of recovering any real money was slim. I reported on the 97 percent drop in valuation for Growth Capitalist today in a story that details how main street investors who gave their pension money to NIR Group’s AJW Funds are shaking their heads in utter disgust. Investor frustration stems from the notion that the SEC has gathered a ton of new evidence to support their claims of asset valuation fraud in a new amended complaint against the hedge fund manager yet the Eastern District of New York DOJ hasn’t charged Ribotsky with any criminal wrong doing yet.
Ribotsky even came to investors with his dick in his hand this March trying to claim he’d been burned by the market and lost millions also via the fees he says he invested back into the fund. This effort is spelled out in a seven page letter sent to NIR Group investors that you can read below. Keep in mind Ribotsky wrote this letter after a court appointed liquidator kicked him out as fund manager in January and then the liquidator showed investors a cash flow report that reflected a completely different picture than Ribotsky had told them for years.
There is a ton of new details in the story on NIR at Growth Capitalist so go ahead and register for free to read it.
Editors Note: Growth Capitalist is a new trade publication founded by one of my former Dealflow Media editors, Brett Goetschius, who has a ton of experience reporting on finance for the institutional and main street investors. If you’re looking for news that helps you with the kind of investment research that hedge funds pay big banks millions of fees for Growth Capitalist could be a good starting point.
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