{"id":28524,"date":"2024-12-16T21:54:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T21:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/16\/ozy-media-co-founder-gets-nearly-10-years-in-prison-in-financial-conspiracy-case\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T21:54:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T21:54:40","slug":"ozy-media-co-founder-gets-nearly-10-years-in-prison-in-financial-conspiracy-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/16\/ozy-media-co-founder-gets-nearly-10-years-in-prison-in-financial-conspiracy-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozy Media co-founder gets nearly 10 years in prison in financial conspiracy case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former talk show host Carlos Watson and now-defunct startup found guilty last summer of wire fraud conspiracy<\/p>\n<p>Former talk show host Carlos Watson was sentenced on Monday to nearly 10 years in prison in a federal financial conspiracy case that cast his once-buzzy Ozy Media as an extreme of fake-it-til-you-make-it startup culture.<\/p>\n<p>So extreme that another Ozy executive impersonated a YouTube executive to hype Ozy to investment bankers \u2013 while Watson coached him, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/16\/ozy-media-co-founder-carlos-watson-sentenced\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former talk show host Carlos Watson and now-defunct startup found guilty last summer of wire fraud conspiracy Former talk show host Carlos Watson was sentenced on Monday to nearly 10 years in prison in a federal financial conspiracy case that cast his once-buzzy Ozy Media as an extreme of fake-it-til-you-make-it startup culture. So extreme that &#8230; <a title=\"Ozy Media co-founder gets nearly 10 years in prison in financial conspiracy case\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/16\/ozy-media-co-founder-gets-nearly-10-years-in-prison-in-financial-conspiracy-case\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ozy Media co-founder gets nearly 10 years in prison in financial conspiracy case\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}