Bonuses

Energy Future Holdings Corp. insiders took nearly $46 million out of the company in the 12 months leading up to its April 29 bankruptcy filing, new court records show.

Brookstone employees hoping to snag an

Dish Network Corp. Chairman Charlie Ergen stands to make hundreds of millions of dollars in profits personally if Dish’s bid for wireless telecommunications firm LightSquared succeeds, court records and people familiar with the situation say.

Yellow-pages companies Dex One Corp. and SuperMedia Inc. have both voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as part of their previously announced all-stock merger deal. Read the article in Daily Bankruptcy Review.

NewPage Corp. says its executives are in danger of being treated like pawns as second-lien investors seek to probe the company’s plans for bonuses.

A bankruptcy judge has scheduled an emergency hearing Wednesday on the company’s bid to protect executives from being grilled by the investors.

The bonuses are linked to a turnaround business plan for NewPage, a preliminary proposal to the company’s Chapter 11 plan that will ultimately say how much each group of creditors will collect.