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The Daily Docket: Aurelius Balks at Washington Mutual Probe

06/21/11

Aurelius Capital Management, one of the big hedge funds accused of benefiting from insider trading in the bankruptcy case of Washington Mutual Inc., says it’s the victim of a “shakedown” by the committee representing aggrieved investors. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review story here.

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Dead Felon May Have Hidden Art from Bankruptcy Trustee

06/20/11

Even a year after Barry Stokes’s death in a federal prison, the court-appointed trustee winding down the convicted Tennessee fraudster’s business is still searching for eighty pieces of potentially valuable art that Stokes may have hid.

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Bracewell’s Bankruptcy Blog Launches Haiku Contest

06/20/11

Restructuring pros

Grab a pen and paper and

Start writing haikus.

That’s because if your poem strikes the fancy of Bracewell & Giuliani partner Evan Flaschen, you could find yourself sitting in a primo pair of seats at Yankee Stadium.

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The Daily Docket: Station Casinos Exits Bankruptcy

06/20/11

Las Vegas casino operator Station Casinos LLC on Friday emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection controlled by the company’s founding Fertitta family, ending a nearly two-year restructuring odyssey. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review story here.

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Citizen Apostolou

06/17/11
Melanie Cohen

Losing his grasp of the beloved Chicago-based Giordano’s pizza chain he’d built over decades, a despe

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Manhattan Bankruptcy Judges ‘Too Fast to Fail’

06/16/11

We have an idea for how the U.S.

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Trustee to Question Young Buck Over Concert Fees

06/16/11

Young Buck has an important gig on July 1. But the Nashville rapper won’t be performing before his adoring fans. Instead, he’ll be answering questions about the whereabouts of performance and appearance fees he’s supposed to turn over as part of his bankruptcy.

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Rock & Republic Founder Moves On

06/15/11

2010 brought a corporate bankruptcy and a new baby to Rock & Republic founder Michael Ball, and it changed his outlook on, well, everything.

“Life is different,” he said in an interview Tuesday. “I look at it with perspective now. It’s not all about creating something and the hype.”

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Court Rulings Are Mixed Bag for Kenneth Starr

03/03/11
Associated Press
Kenneth Starr

You win some, you lose some, and, as Kenneth I. Starr found out yesterday, sometimes you end in a draw.

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Lehman Execs Strike $2M Settlement With American Eagle, Tribe

03/02/11
Bloomberg News
Richard Fuld

Shopping mall staple American Eagle Outfitters Inc.

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