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Fund Manager’s Son Pleads Not Guilty in Montana Death

James Sinclair Welch, the son of a New York hedge-fund manager, pleaded not guilty to charges that he killed a passenger in an all-terrain vehicle while driving intoxicated at Montana’s exclusive Yellowstone Club.

Welch, 19, was arrested after the Aug. 2 incident on a charge of negligent vehicular homicide under the influence of alcohol and was arraigned today before Madison County District Court Judge Loren Tucker in state court in Virginia City.