White-Collar Crime

The trustee tracking down funds to pay creditors of Ponzi-scheme orchestrator Tom Petters just scored a goal in bankruptcy court.

Trustee Douglas Kelley, who is overseeing the bankruptcy liquidation of Petters’s former business empire, on Tuesday won a $200,000 judgment against Luxembourg soccer club CS Fola Esch, court papers show.

Singapore’s real-estate investment arm is offering to buy four U.S. luxury resorts from hedge fund Paulson & Co. for $1.5 billion, subject to higher bids at a bankruptcy auction. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, the SEC accuses former University of Georgia football coach Jim Donnan of running a Ponzi scheme, and Evander Holyfield wants to avoid a knockout in bankruptcy. Also this week, a museum Julia Child helped start is trying to cook up a new beginning.