Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DANIEL KAMENSKY, the founder and former manager of New York-based hedge fund Marble Ridge Capital (“Marble Ridge”), was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to six months in prison for engaging in fraud and extortion to pressure a rival bidder to abandon its higher bid for assets in connection with Neiman Marcus’s bankruptcy proceedings so that Marble Ridge could obtain those assets for a lower price. KAMENSKY pled guilty on February 3, 2021, before United States District Judge Denise L. Cote, who imposed today’s ... (full story)