Beyond Bankruptcy

Unpaid Farmers Sue Allens’ Bankruptcy Advisers

12/19/14
Associated Press

The financial advisory firm that guided an Arkansas vegetable-canning company through bankruptcy to survival may have to return the money it earned—and tens of millions of dollars more—because

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The Daily Docket: Detroit Emerges From Bankruptcy

12/11/14
Associated Press

Detroit’s Chapter 9 bankruptcy case officially ended Wednesday, a day after the city’s emergency manager resigned, The Wall Street Journal

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The Daily Docket: Lehman Trader Seeks $84 Million Bonus…Again

12/10/14

Lehman Brothers says a former trader received his entire $84 million bonus in 2008. Now the failed bank claims he is asking for it again. The Wall Street Journal has the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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The Daily Docket: Former Madoff Operations Director Sentenced

12/09/14

The leader of Bernard Madoff’s broker-dealer business was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday for aiding one of the largest financial frauds in U.S. history with “his meticulous bookkeeping and averted eye,” reports WSJ.

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The Daily Docket: Delia’s Files for Bankruptcy

12/08/14

The Wall Street Journal reports that teen retailer Delia’s filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

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The Daily Docket: Emails May Haunt Credit Suisse

12/03/14
A general view of the Ponte Vecchio Bridge at Ravella at Lake Las Vegas, a Dolce Hotel & Resort, during the hotel’s grand opening February 11, 2011 in Henderson, Nev.
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The Daily Docket: NII Holdings Seeks Approval of Bonuses

12/02/14

Latin American Nextel carrier NII Holdings Inc. has asked for a bankruptcy judge’s permission to pay executives and other top-level employees as much as $9 million in bonuses. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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The Daily Docket: Revel Looks to Salvage Sale to Brookfield

11/24/14
The Revel Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, N.J.
Mel Evans/Associated Press

Lawyers representing Atlantic City, N.J.’s Revel Casino Hotel will meet with a h

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