He’s baaccck!
Vince McCrudden, the volatile hedge fund trader who was jailed for threatening to kill government regulators, will complete his 28-month sentence tomorrow. But despite his time in the clink, McCrudden continues to lash out at his detractors.
Last week, he was back to his old tricks on his website, albni.com, announcing his impending release and penning angry missives to his attorneys, the federal judges who presided over his case and “the media.”
On the site are pointed words to his “captors and oppressors over the last sixteen years” — a thinly veiled reference to the regulators he has been battling with for more than a decade.
“I would make a list of all of you, but that didn’t work out too well last time,” he said to this latter group.
McCrudden, 51, was arrested at Newark-Liberty International Airport in early 2011 for posting an “execution” list on his Web site targeting 47 government officials, including Mary Schapiro, then head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Gary Gensler, head of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission.
He also pleaded guilty to e-mailing a high-ranking National Futures Association official, threatening to hire a hit men to torture and kill him — a charge he now denies.
In an interview yesterday, McCrudden conceded he is “not a sympathetic figure.” He also admitted using “vulgar” language in his communications.
But he stood his ground on his ongoing battle with regulators because, he says, they bullied him with their investigations into his businesses.
“I’ve written nasty things, but the people who have done this to me never had to answer to it,” he said.
McCrudden is suing Gensler, the CFTC and other regulatory bodies for libel and defamation.
McCrudden has been in home confinement since October. He said he hopes to raise the money to launch another hedge fund.