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The Broke and the Beautiful: Joe Francis Edition

05/10/13

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, Joe Francis was found guilty of assault and false imprisonment, and he could get up to five years in prison. Also, rapper Young Buck’s bankruptcy case is winding down.

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The Daily Docket: MSR Enters Chapter 11…Again

05/10/13

John Paulson‘s hedge fund has placed real-estate investment trust MSR Hotels & Resorts Inc., which recently sold a group of its affiliated resorts for $1.5 billion at bankruptcy sale, into Chapter 11 in a bid to stymie a multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed by Five Mile Capital Partners, Daily Bankruptcy Review reports.

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Young Buck’s Bankruptcy Rap Sheet

05/09/13

Young Buck’s bankruptcy is drawing to a close while the rapper serves a prison sentence for gun possession.

The trustee overseeing the Nashville, Tenn.-based rapper’s bankruptcy liquidation recently filed her final report in the case, which raised $391,331.59 to pay creditors. Most creditors aren’t getting paid in full, while some aren’t getting paid at all.

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The Daily Docket: Trustee Balks at Revel Plan

05/09/13
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A federal bankruptcy watchdog is objecting to casino owner Revel AC Inc.’s restructuring plan, taking aim at “expansive” provisions meant to shield everyone from lenders to equity

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The Daily Docket: Lenders Win ATP Auction

05/08/13

Secured lenders led by Credit Suisse AG have been declared winners of an auction for the oil and gas drilling assets of ATP Oil & Gas Corp. with an offer of $690.8 million, court papers say.

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Extra, Extra: Read All About The Daily Voice’s Bankruptcy

05/08/13

The Daily Voice’s websites cover such “hyper-local” news as a hospital anniversary and “bike/walk to school day” in communities throughout New York’s Westchester County and Connecticut’s Fairfield County. But it’ll make headlines itself with its bankruptcy filing.

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Restructuring Lawyers Leave Cadwalader for O’Melveny

05/07/13

Veteran restructuring lawyers John Rapisardi and George Davis are heading to O’Melveny & Myers LLP after six years with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft.

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Trumping Transparency

05/07/13
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Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., on March 15.

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The Daily Docket: ResCap Sues Bondholders

05/07/13

Residential Capital LLC is suing a group of junior bondholders to block them from wresting control of the subprime mortgage lender’s bankruptcy case. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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SouthPeak Seeks to Pull Plug on TimeGate Bankruptcy

05/06/13
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A still from Section 8: Prejudice

A videogame publisher that holds a $10 million fraud judgment against game developer TimeGate Studi

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