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The trustee of defunct mortgage lender Thornburg Mortgage Inc.is renewing his attack against some of the biggest players on Wall Street’s mortgage-finance assembly line—including affiliates of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Citigroup Inc. and Credit Suisse Group AG—accusing them of scheming to strip Thornburg’s assets until it collapsed into bankruptcy. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review story here.

RoomStore Inc. filed for Chapter 11 protection Monday with plans to get leaner, but it’s not the furniture and bedding retailer’s first brush with bankruptcy.

RoomStore, whose slogan is “We Don’t Cut Corners. We Cut Prices,” went into Chapter 11 along with its former parent more than a decade ago. It’s since used bankruptcy to snatch up stores from its competitors.

For Bill’s Gay Nineties in midtown Manhattan, the taps may finally have run dry.

“The original New York speakeasy” boasts four generations of customers who’ve enjoyed its hooch, even when the stuff was illegal. It claimed to be “unchanged and unspoiled” for 80 years since the first owner “boarded up the windows and opened the doors” of 57 East 54th St. to entertain and serve alcohol during Prohibition.