Mealey's (September 30, 2019, 1:48 PM EDT) -- BROOKLYN, N.Y. — A federal judge in New York on Sept. 27 acquitted a former executive of securities fraud charges arising from his role in a hedge fund scheme to transfer assets to a reinsurance company and related entities to defraud bondholders in an oil and gas company and granted a new trial to the defunct hedge fund’s co-founder on similar charges (United States v. Mark Nordlicht, et al., No. 16-cr-00640, E.D. N.Y., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 167084)....