The Foundation for Financial Journalism (https://ffj-online.org/tag/anthony-davian/)
Anthony Davian, a once-prolific presence on social media who held himself out as a iconoclastic hedge fund manager prior to his August 2013 indictment on a series of fraud charges, was sentenced in a Cleveland courtroom to four years and nine months in federal prison.
On Aug. 4, 2012, a bright young mortgage department employee at J.P. Morgan named Ben Sayer was all smiles: The head of a rapidly expanding hedge fund said to have almost $200 million in assets — one Anthony Davian of Davian Capital Advisors — had invited him to attend his fund’s annual golf outing for clients at the swanky Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio.