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Being the leader of the free world comes with some influence, but no one gets a shortcut to money in Hollywood. If proof is necessary, an objection filed in Delaware bankruptcy court Tuesday by the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation should provide it.
Urinating in a cup, being dragged off a plane: Here are the biggest airline scandals of the year. Urinating in a cup, being dragged off a plane: Here are the biggest airline scandals of the year.
In In re SGK Ventures, LLC, Case No. 15 C 11224, 2017 WL 2683686 , Judge Durkin of the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois sets out a thorough analysis for addressing recharacterization and equitable subordination of claims.
Section 503 of the Bankruptcy Code ) provides a special administrative priority claim for someone that supplies goods to a debtor in the 20 day period before the bankruptcy filing, but is unpaid as of the date of the filing. This is a meaningful priority.
The Department of Justice announced that a Russian national was indicted for allegedly using the digital currency exchange he ran to launder billions of dollars for others and facilitate drug trafficking, identity theft and hacking. According to the DOJ, Alexander Vinnik operated BTC-e, one of the largest digital exchanges where users could trade bitcoin for other cryptocurrencies or legal tender.
The Kush sat before investigators in Congress on Monday to talk about his meetings with Russian folk leading up to last year's election, and he wanted the committee to know that at no point was he colluding with Moscow to elect Donald Trump. He may not have disclosed some of the meetings he had with Russians when he filed for his security clearance , but this does not mean the meetings were nefarious.
Even as the progressive list of everything wrong in our society that the 99 percent suffers at the hands of the one percent was enumerated at least three times, the mood at the Civic Center was upbeat today in Silver Spring, Maryland. Sen. Bernie Sanders was coming to speak, to introduce and endorse Maryland progressive gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous, the popular former national president of the NAACP.
Key Safety Systems said on Sunday that it had reached a deal with Takata to purchase nearly all of its assets for about 175 billion yen , after the air-bag maker filed for bankruptcy in the United States and Japan. KSS said it would retain almost all of Takata's employees and did not intend to close any of the company's manufacturing facilities.
Well I hope we get into this because look, I take responsibility for every decision I made, but that's not why I lost. "So people went to vote on November 8th having no idea that there was an active counter intelligence investigation going on of the Trump campaign", she said .
Stocks fell sharply Wednesday following reports of a memo from former FBI Director James Comey that says Trump asked him to stop the investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn. A key measure of market volatility also spiked.
On Adriene McNally's 49th birthday in January, she heard a knock on the door of her modest row-home in Northeast Philadelphia. The papers were from a government lawsuit that represents something more than just an unwelcome birthday gift - it's an example of a program the federal government has brought to 19 cities around the country including Brooklyn, Detroit, Miami and Philadelphia: suing to recover unpaid student loans, like the ones McNally owes.
On Wednesday , the Bahamian people will choose between incumbent Prime Minister Perry Christie's Progressive Liberal Party, or its main opposition, the Free National Movement. A third party is also in the running, but it is not expected to garner a large swell of support.
The process that Puerto Rico has undertaken is a prelude to bankruptcy, but in this case it is tailored for governments. Because of the impending bankruptcy filing, lawsuits will presumably be frozen, preventing court rulings that favor one creditor group over another.
Puerto Rico's governor on Wednesday announced a historic restructuring of a portion of the United States territory's US$73 billion debt through the courts after negotiations with bondholders failed. Governor Ricardo Rossello said that a federal control board overseeing the island's finances agreed with his request late Tuesday to put certain debts before a court.
Elizabeth "Libby" Smith, clerk of court for the federal courts in Idaho, has been named the new circuit executive of the 9th Circuit; she will start her new job next month. Smith has managed administrative services for the U.S. District Court and U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Idaho since 2009, including federal court operations in Boise, Coeur d'Alene, Moscow and Pocatello.
In this Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011, file photo, former MF Global Holdings Ltd. Chairman and CEO Jon Corzine testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the House Financial Services Committee. The dispute between brokerage firm MF Global, run by former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, and the accounting firm PwC goes to trial Monday, March 6, 2017.
BP AUTOMOTIVE LP D/B/A BOSSIER DODGE, Appellant v. RML WAXAHACHIE DODGE, LLC, RLJ-MCLARTY-LANDERS AUTOMOTIVE HOLDINGS, LLC, RML WAXAHACHIE FORD, LLC, AND RML WAXAHACHIE GMC, LLC, Appellees This is an appeal of a suit brought by BP Automotive LP d/b/a Bossier Dodge against RML Waxahachie Dodge, LLC, RLJ-McLarty-Landers Automotive Holdings, LLC, RML Waxahachie Ford, LLC, and RML Waxahachie GMC, LLC. Because a great deal of the holdings in this opinion depend on the actions of previous courts litigating controversies between these parties , it is worthwhile to recite the prior history of the litigation between them.
Reuters is reporting that St. Paul-based hunting and fishing chain Gander Mountain is preparing to file for bankruptcy as early as this month, after an aggressive effort to expand its store base failed to pull in new customers, according to people familiar with the matter. Gander Mountain is working with financial advisory firm Lighthouse Management Group and Minneapolis law firm Fredrikson & Byron as it gets ready to file for bankruptcy, the people told Reuters this week.
In the Matter of: STEPHEN JOHN BANDI; CHARLES EDWARD BANDI, Debtors STEPHEN JOHN BANDI; CHARLES EDWARD BANDI, Appellants v. CHRISTOPHER BECNEL, Appellee After Stephen and Charles Bandi filed voluntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy petitions, Christopher Becnel sued the Bandis in bankruptcy court to prevent the Bandis from discharging a debt owed to Becnel.
Megan McArdle is a Bloomberg View columnist. She wrote for the Daily Beast, Newsweek, the Atlantic and the Economist and founded the blog Asymmetrical Information.