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Ally hopes to end mortgage woes with ResCap bankruptcy - msnbc.com

05/14/12

Ally still owes the government about $12 billion, counting dividend payments by the lender and sale of some securities by the Treasury. The bankruptcy filing comes as pressure increases on Ally to repay that money and problems at ResCap become increasingly unmanageable.

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2nd UPDATE: Ally Financial: Rescap Mortgage Subsidiaries File Chapter 11 - NASDAQ

05/14/12

ResCap expects to close the sale at the end of the year, Marano said. ResCap, once one of the country's largest subprime-mortgage lenders, has been the subject of bankruptcy speculation on and off for several years. Fortress considered buying ...

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Ally’s Residential Capital Files for Bankruptcy (Update 1) - Bloomberg

05/14/12

ResCap’s board voted to declare bankruptcy and arrange a sale to Fortress Investment Group LLC (FIG) and Nationstar Mortgage Holdings Inc. for about $2.3 billion, ResCap Chairman and CEO Thomas Marano, 50, said in an interview. Nationstar ...

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Ally puts mortgage unit into bankruptcy - Financial Times

05/14/12

Mike Carpenter, chief executive, said Ally was also putting its international business up for sale as part of an effort to repay ... that Bank of America could follow suit and try to use bankruptcy to shed the billions of dollars of possible liabilities ...

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Never Mind The (Bankrupt) County, Birmingham Plans Bond Sale - Wall Street Journal

05/14/12

It is the seat of Jefferson County, which is mired in the biggest municipal bankruptcy in history thanks to billions of dollars of sewer bond debt. Tom Barnett, the city's finance director, said Friday that Birmingham could have

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Bruce Bennett to Leave Dewey for Jones Day - Wall Street Journal

05/13/12

Mr. Bennett represented the Los Angeles Dodgers in the baseball team’s recent $2 billion bankruptcy sale to a group of investors including Magic Johnson. He said the core of a group that practiced for Dewey in Los Angeles and came to the firm ...

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Ally Financial's mortgage unit nears bankruptcy-sources - Reuters

05/13/12

A bankruptcy of ResCap would clear the path for Ally ... Ally owes the government about $12 billion, counting dividend payments by the lender and sale of some securities by the Treasury. The filling would come as pressure increases on Ally ...

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American Airlines agrees to consider potential mergers - CBS News

05/12/12

said he was pleased American would at least consider a merger while still in bankruptcy. "We've run (newspaper) ads and done everything we could to tell the company to consider every option, and one is the possible sale or merger," he said.

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Never Mind The (Bankrupt) County, Birmingham Plans Bond Sale - Wall Street Journal

05/11/12

It is the seat of Jefferson County, which is mired in the biggest municipal bankruptcy in history thanks to billions of dollars of sewer bond debt. Tom Barnett, the city's finance director, said Friday that Birmingham could have to pay as much as 0.25

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Ed Schultz Insists GM and Chrysler Never Went Through Bankruptcy - News Busters

05/11/12

Here's a clip from Schultz's radio show on June 1, 2009, the day of GM's filing (audio)-- The following day, Schultz came across as breezily cavalier about a specific aspect of GM's bankruptcy, the sale of its Hummer division to a buyer in China ...

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