Israel arrived at a Massachusetts police station on a Yamaha scooter while talking to his mother on a mobile phone. Police said he had been holed up at a nearby caravan park in the camper van he used as an escape vehicle. Co-founder of the Connecticut hedge fund Bayou Group, Israel pleaded guilty in 2005 to a scheme to fabricate returns and cheat investors out of $450m (£225.6m). It is still the largest fraud case involving a hedge fund. He was sentenced in April and disappeared soon after. Israel's car was found abandoned on a bridge over the Hudson River in New York with the words 'suicide is painless' scrawled in dust on the bonnet. Authorities trawled the river for a body but determined that the suicide was a ruse. Ten days after Israel disappeared, authorities arrested his girlfriend on charges of aiding and abetting his...
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