Bankruptcy Court Approves Levandowski's Retention of Special Cr...

Updating an earlier post (here) on Anthony Levandowski's request for bankruptcy court approval to retain special criminal counsel in his chapter 11 bankruptcy case, it appears that U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Hannah L. Blumenstiel approved the retention.  According to the docket in In re Anthony Scott Levandowski, Case No. 3:20-bk-30242 (Bankr. N.D. Cal), the application was approved "for the reason stated on the record" of the hearing on May 21.  The United States Trustee had opposed special criminal counsel's retention on a number of grounds related to the proposed fee arrangement and pending a showing that counsel's retention would benefit the estate.  The debtor argued that criminal counsel's retention benefitted the estate because a plea agreement negotiated with the U.S. Attorney's Office capped the amount of restitution in the criminal case and counsel's efforts to limit the debtor's exposure to a long prison term would leave the debtor at liberty to work and earn funds that would be property of the estate.