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Disgraced hedge funder Sam Israel went before a federal judge in lower Manhattan this morning after surrendering to the police yesterday. So what did he have to say for himself? Israel claims he tried to kill himself while on the run by swallowing 175 tablets of morphine and then eating the Fentanyl patches he had with him. And we just thought he spent the past two weeks working on the perfect fugitive beard. [NYDN]