Bankruptcy Blogs

Eunice Roper-Allen, of the Allen Funeral Home, who was indicted last month in the Central District of Illinois, has entered a not guilty plea to charges that she concealed assets in her bankruptcy case and defrauded a funeral home client by falsifying a decedent's funeral expenses.

The trial of Louis Rivas on a multitude of bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy criminal charges arising from the collapse of his foreign curency exchange firm, The Forex Project (discussed in this post), has been re-scheduled to July 20, 2009.

According to this news report, Calisto Tanzi, the founder of Italian food manufacturer Parmalat was sentenced earlier this month in Milan to serve ten years in prison for his criminal role in the firm's well-publicized collapse.  Tanzi was convicted and sentenced on bankruptcy fraud and criminal association charges.  Dubbed "Europe's Enron," the Parmalat collapse resulted in a series of criminal trials including two of Tanzi's adult children (who negotiated

Anthony Dehaney, whose conviction in a multi-million dollar mortgage fraud scheme we previously reported on here, was sentenced today in the Southern District of Florida to eight years in prison.  Dehaney pleaded guilty to conspiracy, mail fraud and making a false declaration in a bankruptcy case last October.  He admitted before sentencing that he began investing in real