{"id":6261,"date":"2018-05-03T17:54:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T17:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/?p=6261"},"modified":"2021-04-21T07:58:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T12:58:10","slug":"yasuna-murakami-sentenced-for-investor-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/yasuna-murakami-sentenced-for-investor-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Hedge Fund Manager Sentenced to Prison for Investor Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yasuna Murakami,\u00a0a hedge fund manager who oversaw\u00a0\u00a0MC2 Capital Management LLC \u00a0And\u00a0MC2 Canada Capital Management LLC, is \u00a0sentenced to six years in prison for fraud. Prosecutors accused him of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/professional-trader-claims\/hedge-fund-traders\/\">defrauding hedge fund investors<\/a>. Additionally,\u00a0Murakami,\u00a0must pay over $10.5M in investor restitution.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested the Massachusetts hedge fund manager last year. When pleading guilty to wire fraud, Murakami acknowledged that he diverted millions of dollars in investor monies to his own personal and business accounts, as well as used their funds to pay for a luxury sports car, make credit card payments, travel abroad, make purchases at expensive department stores, initiate investments on his own behalf, and issue Ponzi-like payments to investors.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Yasuna Murakami and Former Business Partner Were Working Together to Defraud Investors\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/yasuna-murakami-sentenced-for-investor-fraud\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Massachusetts Hedge Fund Manager Sentenced to Prison for Investor Fraud\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yasuna Murakami,\u00a0a hedge fund manager who oversaw\u00a0\u00a0MC2 Capital Management LLC \u00a0And\u00a0MC2 Canada Capital Management LLC, is \u00a0sentenced to six years in prison for fraud. Prosecutors accused him of defrauding hedge fund investors. Additionally,\u00a0Murakami,\u00a0must pay over $10.5M in investor restitution. Police arrested the Massachusetts hedge fund manager last year. When pleading guilty to wire fraud, Murakami [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3748,3738,4093],"tags":[2949,3064,3066],"class_list":["post-6261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-funds","category-investor-fraud","category-mc2-capital-management","tag-hedge-fund-fraud","tag-mc2-capital-management","tag-yasuna-murakami"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hedge Fund Manager Sentenced to Prison | SSEK Law Firm Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yasuna Murakami of MC2 Capital Management was recently sentenced to six years in prison for committing investor fraud.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/yasuna-murakami-sentenced-for-investor-fraud\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Hedge Fund Manager Sentenced to Prison | SSEK Law Firm Blog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Yasuna Murakami of MC2 Capital Management was recently sentenced to six years in prison for committing investor fraud.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shepherd Smith Edwards &amp; 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