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Missing fund manager Israel not dead: official

BOSTON
Mon Jun 16, 2008 4:01pm EDT
Former hedge fund manager Samuel Israel is seen in this picture released by the U.S. Marshals office. REUTERS/U.S. Department of Justice/Handout

BOSTON (Reuters) - Samuel Israel III, a former hedge fund manager convicted of fraud, is alive and on the run a week after he staged his suicide on a bridge above New York's Hudson River, a law enforcement official said on Monday.

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"The investigation is solely a fugitive investigation now," said the official who is familiar with the investigation but not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.

U.S. marshals began searching for the 48-year-old Israel last Monday after he failed to show up for his 20-year prison term and his car was found abandoned on a bridge in New York.

But with no body, police said they quickly became suspicious that Israel, who cheated investors in his Bayou Group hedge fund out of $450 million, had staged a hoax.

(Reporting by Svea Herbst-Bayliss, Editing by Jason Szep)



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