{"id":3788,"date":"2024-12-17T16:22:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T16:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ozy-media-founder-carlos-watson-sentenced-to-10-years\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T16:22:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T16:22:18","slug":"ozy-media-founder-carlos-watson-sentenced-to-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ozy-media-founder-carlos-watson-sentenced-to-10-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozy Media founder Carlos Watson sentenced to 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Watson, founder of the defunct digital media company Ozy Media, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for lying to investors about the startup&#8217;s finances. Watson&#8217;s 116-month-long sentence for conspiracy to commit securities fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft came Monday in Brooklyn federal court&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/business\/5043351-ozy-founder-carlos-watson-sentenced-10-years\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Watson, founder of the defunct digital media company Ozy Media, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for lying to investors about the startup&#8217;s finances. Watson&#8217;s 116-month-long sentence for conspiracy to commit securities fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft came Monday in Brooklyn federal court&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}