Bankruptcy Blogs

The Examiners: Refusal to Disclose Insider Pay Breeds Distrust

11/18/15

When it comes to pre-bankruptcy insider pay, how much disclosure is enough?

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Fincen Should Be Stripped of Executioner Powers

11/18/15

How could an agency most people outside of the U.S. have never heard of effectively shut down an overseas bank without much explanation or even a hearing?

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The Examiners: Focus on Pay Disclosure Misses the Mark

11/18/15

When it comes to pre-bankruptcy insider pay, how much disclosure is enough?

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Why That Orwellian Anti-CFPB Ad Worked

11/18/15

The American Action Network's provocative television commercial introduced millions of Americans to one of the most powerful and unaccountable government agencies in Washington.

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Morning Scan: JPM, RBS Probed Over Mortgage Security Sales; Simple Tees Up IPO

11/18/15

Wall Street Journal

Prosecutors are pursuing criminal cases against JPMorgan Chase and Royal Bank of Scotland executives for allegedly selling flawed mortgage securities, unnamed sources said. Authorities are looking at a $2.2 billion deal that RBS handled, in which home mortgages were securitized. RBS has already reached a civil settlement with the SEC on the case. JPMorgan is being probed on a different deal, earlier investigated by the Justice Department's Sacramento, Calif., office, related to a...

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Wrangling Over Caesars $18 Billion Restructuring Spills to Lawyers

11/18/15

The battle over the $18 billion restructuring of Caesars Entertainment Operating Co.—the bankrupt operating unit of casino giant Caesars Entertainment Corp.—has spilled over to the lawyers. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal.

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The Examiners: History Dictates Disclosure of Insider Pay

11/17/15

When it comes to pre-bankruptcy insider pay, how much disclosure is enough?

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The Examiners: Insider Pay Disclosure is Cost of Bankruptcy Protection

11/17/15

When it comes to pre-bankruptcy insider pay, how much disclosure is enough?

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USC in Tuition Battle: Former Students Will Face Consequences

11/17/15
Andrew Krech/Citizens’ Voice via Associated Press

In the latest battle over whether bankrupt parents should have paid for their kids’ college education, the University of Southern California made it clear that t

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The Tilapia Are Safe

11/17/15
Associated Press/Red Lobster

For a moment, it seemed like 58,000 tilapia kept in a financially struggling fish farm weren’t going to make it to your dinner plate.

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