{"id":246373,"date":"2005-01-04T10:29:17","date_gmt":"2005-01-04T15:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/01\/law-clerk-gone-bad-used-bahamas-ibc-in-17-mil-fraud"},"modified":"2005-01-04T10:29:17","modified_gmt":"2005-01-04T15:29:17","slug":"law-clerk-gone-bad-used-bahamas-ibc-in-17-mil-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/01\/law-clerk-gone-bad-used-bahamas-ibc-in-17-mil-fraud","title":{"rendered":"Law Clerk &#39;Gone Bad&#39; Used Bahamas IBC In $17 Mil Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former senior Cisco Systems executive who pled guilty to embezzling $17 million worth of funds and stock from his former employer and transferring it into the account of a Bahamas-based International Business Company (IBC) he controlled has been described by a court judgement as a &#8220;disappointing story of a promising federal appellate law clerk gone bad&#8221;.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nIn a ruling that upheld most of the $27.397 million Robert Gordon was ordered to pay in restitution by a California district court judge, Judge Richard Clifton, of the ninth circuit court of appeals, said, &#8220;This case presents the disappointing story of a promising federal appellate law clerk gone bad.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;Robert Gordon, a graduate of Stanford Law School and a former law clerk for one of our colleagues, a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the seventh circuit, embezzled millions of dollars in cash from his employer Cisco Systems.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nGordon, a Cisco Systems former vice-president and director of business development previously pleaded guilty to wire fraud and insider trading in the northern Californian district court.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<B>Source: Neil Hartnell, The Tribune<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#39;This case presents the disappointing story of a promising federal appellate law clerk gone bad,&#39; said the judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}