Bankruptcy Blogs

The Daily Docket: Dewey Execs Indicted

03/07/14

Former leaders at collapsed law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP were indicted on fraud charges including grand larceny, securities fraud and conspiracy and have pleaded not guilty, The Wall Street Journal reports.

[more]

The Daily Docket: Dewey Execs Indicted

03/07/14

Former leaders at collapsed law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP were indicted on fraud charges including grand larceny, securities fraud and conspiracy and have pleaded not guilty, The Wall Street Journal reports.

[more]

Morning Scan: Media Loses Mind After Newsweek Maybe Unmasks Creator of Bitcoin

03/07/14

Receiving Wide Coverage ...

The Father of Bitcoin? Newsweek kicked a media-filled hornet's nest yesterday when reporter Leah McGrath Goodman purported to have found the creator of Bitcoin. The person in question? A 64-year-old Japanese engineer living in California named Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, or, legally, Satoshi Nakamoto, the name that first appeared on a white paper introducing the cryptocurrency in 2008. Goodman's article, containing numerous details on Nakamoto's life and several interviews with family and friends,...

[more]

Plain Meaning and Chapter 15

03/06/14

I’m on my way to the Choice of Law in Cross-Border Bankruptcy Cases symposium at Brooklyn Law School that Susan Block-Lieb mentioned in her post earlier this week, so I have Chapter 15 on the brain.

[more]

Prosecutors File Indictment Against Former Dewey & LeBoeuf Executives

03/06/14

Manhattan prosecutors accused three former leaders of the defunct law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP of engaging in a sweeping, years-long fraud to hide the firm’s desperate financial problems from banks and other creditors.

[more]

Prosecutors File Indictment Against Former Dewey & LeBoeuf Executives

03/06/14

Manhattan prosecutors accused three former leaders of the defunct law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP of engaging in a sweeping, years-long fraud to hide the firm’s desperate financial problems from banks and other creditors.

[more]

Can Bankruptcy Rescue You from a Financial Scam?

03/06/14

investment fraudHas anyone ever offered you $500, $1,000, $2,000 or more for you to sign your name – no strings attached?

[more]

Can Bankruptcy Rescue You from a Financial Scam?

03/06/14

investment fraudHas anyone ever offered you $500, $1,000, $2,000 or more for you to sign your name – no strings attached?

[more]

I'm Confused

03/06/14

Again.  This morning's Daily Bankruptcy Review reports that Fisker's creditors want to sue the debtor's secured lender.

[more]

Lawyer: Texas Separatists Considered Buying Mulligan Mint

03/06/14

A Dallas mint in search of a buyer sparked the interest of a Texas separatist group, a lawyer revealed Wednesday in bankruptcy court.

A lawyer who helped market Mulligan Mint Inc.’s Texas plant, which made more than 30,000 coins per month before filing for bankruptcy in September, said he got a verbal offer for the plant from a group called the Republic of Texas.

[more]