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SpongeBob coins among assets seized by FBI from Peregrine HQ - NBCNews.com

07/19/12

Peregrine, which operated as PFGBest, filed for bankruptcy protection last week. Peregrine ran a unit called PFG Precious Metals Inc., which offers investors "whole sale prices, fast & fully insured shipping" for gold, silver, and platinum coins ...

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BDO Consulting Expands Litigation and Fraud Investigation Practice Daniel Ventricelli Appointed Managing Director in New York - CNBC

07/19/12

... Law teaching a bankruptcy forensic accounting course for their LL.M. in bankruptcy program. About BDO Consulting BDO Consulting, a division of BDO USA, LLP, provides litigation, investigation, insurance claims, business restructuring and risk advisory ...

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Judge approves Donnan bankruptcy plan - Athens Banner-Herald

07/19/12

... judge approved a settlement plan Thursday in former University of Georgia football coach Jim Donnan’s bankruptcy case after Donnan’s creditors unanimously agreed to it. Creditors have claimed that Donnan and his wife Mary owes them more ...

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L.A. Now Live: Discuss Compton, municipal bankruptcies - Los Angeles Times

07/19/12

The situation is similar in other financially strapped cities, including San Bernardino, which voted last week to authorize a bankruptcy filing. Stockton and Mammoth Lakes also recently filed for Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy.

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UPDATE 1-Troubled Calif. cities view on debt a concern - Moody's - Reuters

07/19/12

allowing the city to proceed with a Chapter 9 bankruptcy filing without having to seek mediation with its creditors. Stockton, a city of 300,000 in California's Central Valley, filed for bankruptcy after three months of confidential talks with creditors.

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Troubled California cities view on debt a concern: Moody's - NBCNews.com

07/19/12

allowing the city to proceed with a Chapter 9 bankruptcy filing without having to seek mediation with its creditors. Stockton, a city of 300,000 in California's Central Valley, filed for bankruptcy after three months of confidential talks with creditors.

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Anadarko Didn’t Reach Settlement of Tronox Case - Bloomberg

07/19/12

The bankruptcy case is Tronox Inc., 09-10156, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan). To contact the reporter on this story: Tiffany Kary in New York at [email protected] To contact the editor responsible for this ...

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US Air chief won't wait forever to merge - trivalleycentral.com

07/19/12

He said on Wednesday that a merger while American is still in Chapter 11 is better because the bankruptcy code makes it easier to get rid of planes that the combined airline doesn’t want, and to renegotiate airport leases and other contracts.

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Judge closes the book on monk's bankruptcy case - Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier

07/19/12

CEDAR RAPIDS --- He filed a personal bankruptcy petition in December in Iowa, but since then Ryan St. Anne Scott has "essentially done nothing" federal officials require. John Schmillen, an attorney with the U.S. Bankruptcy Trustee's Office, noted that ...

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