News Topic: White-Collar Crime

A group led by basketball star Magic Johnson won the Los Angeles Dodgers at a bankruptcy auction Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reports . ... Read full article

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, Lenny Dykstra gets prison time and the owners of the New York Mets must pay up. Also, a judge wants the Los Angeles Dodgers and Bryan Stow to settle their dispute. ... Read full article

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC analysts said Wednesday they are “underwhelmed” by AMR Corp.’s standalone restructuring plan and believe it’s more likely that the parent of American Airlines will merge with a competitor. Read the article in Daily Bankruptcy ... Read full article

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. on Tuesday officially emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after nearly 3 1/2 years and said creditors of the investment bank will start getting paid next month. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall ... Read full article

Bloomberg News Lee Farkas is imprisoned at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, N.C. Once the train of forfeiture is chugging down the track ... Read full article

A Birmingham, Ala., judge ruled that Jefferson County can move forward with its Chapter 9 bankruptcy case—the largest municipal case in U.S. history—against the efforts of big Wall Street banks that argued that it should be thrown out because of fine ... Read full article

Bloomberg News Lee Farkas Writing from prison, Lee Farkas is asking the federal government not ... Read full article

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, Kodak wants to reject an agreement with the PGA Tour and stars in Billy Crystal’s Oscars jokes. Also this week, Oscar winner Meryl Streep donates money to a school in Central Falls, R.I. ... Read full article

Hostess Brands Inc. is defending its bid to shed its pension plans and cut back on benefits for its unionized employees, saying it’s the only way for the company to survive its current trip through bankruptcy. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here ... Read full article

A company controlled by real-estate mogul Donald Trump is set to buy the Doral Golf Resort & Spa in Miami out of Chapter 11 protection and prepare it for a massive renovation after no other bidders stepped up to challenge its $150 million offer for ... Read full article

A judge on Monday approved Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.’s plan to exit bankruptcy proceedings as a leaner grocery chain by both store count and cost of labor, more than a year after the owner of A&P and other supermarkets filed for Chapter 11. ... Read full article

A legal fight between Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. over claims that the bank illegally siphoned billions of dollars from Lehman in the weeks before its collapse illustrates what happens when the “shadow” banking system ... Read full article

The financially struggling operator of Small Smiles Dental filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to begin the process of selling its operations to repay its debts. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, Gary Busey’s assets are revealed. Also, Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins’s bankruptcy case has been dismissed, and Don Henley’s nonprofit group will return half of the donation it got from Ponzi-scheme operator Scott ... Read full article

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and its creditors said they want to subpoena Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner over allegations J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. illegally siphoned billions of dollars from the collapsing investment bank before it filed for ... Read full article

A judge on Wednesday said Eastman Kodak Co. could continue borrowing on its $950 million bankruptcy loan from Citigroup Inc., after satisfying several parties’ concerns with it. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

Washington Mutual Inc. is looking at trouble Thursday when it makes its third attempt to get its $7 billion Chapter 11 plan confirmed, thanks to a significant “no” vote by preferred shareholders. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

The trustee supervising the liquidation of MF Global Holdings’ brokerage on Friday said that more than $1.6 billion in customer cash remains out of his grasp, more than previously estimated. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article