![FILE - Rudy Giuliani talks to reporters as he leaves after his defamation trial in Washington, Dec. 15, 2023. Giuliani has been disbarred in New York. The former New York City mayor, federal prosecutor and legal adviser to Donald Trump received the decision Tuesday, July 2, 2024 from an appeals court in Manhattan. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)](https://assets.law360news.com/1856000/1856943/07db953b59f26d621ed34d5c0400f0a738c83ddc-rudy_giuliani_disbarred_46111.jpg)
Rudy Giuliani: From America's Mayor To 'Disgraceful' Debtor
After emerging from the ashes of the 9/11 terrorist attack as a public official the wounded nation could rally behind, former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani is now being slammed for "disgraceful behavior" in the foundering Chapter 11 case arising from his defamation of election workers in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election.
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The Real Estate Bankruptcies Making Headlines This Year
The real estate industry is no stranger to distress, but recent market headwinds have made it even harder for certain companies to chart the course to calmer seas. Catch up on the major real estate bankruptcy developments that have made headlines so far this year.
![04 January 2010- Los Angeles, California- Three Hollywood studios, Universal, Fox and Warner Bros, are engaged in a court battle with Redbox over their efforts to prevent DVD releases from finding their way into popular Redbox kiosks. Redbox has in turn sued Universal, Fox and Warner Bros. over what it calls antitrust violations. Redbox recently set a new one-day rental record, seeing 2 million DVDs rented from their kiosks on New Year's Eve. Photo Credit: Krista Kennell/Sipa Press./redbox.003/1001041908 (Sipa via AP Images)](https://assets.law360news.com/1856000/1856338/333bea6c7ccceb0f6198d8152bb96752f1c61f99-sipausa.30055748000003.jpg)
The Story Behind The Redbox Parent Company's Ch. 11
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, the parent of DVD rental company Redbox Entertainment Inc., descended into bankruptcy following its acquisition by Apollo Capital Management and racking up unpaid bills to license films.
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Rite Aid agreed to a nearly $410 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, the bulk of which will be an unsecured claim in the company's Chapter 11 case, that will put to bed allegations the phar... (more story)
Manhattan federal prosecutors urged a jury on Wednesday to convict Chinese dissident Miles Guo for operating his political movement as a vast racketeering conspiracy that "brainwashed" supporters into spending... (more story)
Investment firm Acis Capital Management LP can't get involved in a $9.6 million claim dispute in reorganized hedge fund Highland Capital Management LP's Chapter 11 case, a Texas bankruptcy judge ruled Wednesda... (more story)
Petersen Health Care won a Delaware bankruptcy judge's approval on Wednesday to sell most of its nursing homes after selecting four bidders at an auction earlier this month, defeating or resolving objections t... (more story)
The judge overseeing the restructuring of Puerto Rico's electric utility on Wednesday asked the island's fiscal board and bondholders to prove wrong a court-appointed mediator's gloomy assessment on the prospe... (more story)
Attorneys for the parent of Redbox Entertainment on Wednesday told a Delaware bankruptcy judge that "massive mismanagement" of the DVD rental company had left them with no choice but to ask for conversion of t... (more story)
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday urged the D.C. Court of Appeals to let him keep his law license, saying he did not commit misconduct in his work on former President Donald Trump's challenge to Pennsylvania's 2020 p... (more story)
Cooley LLP expanded its transactional services in its Los Angeles office this week with the addition of an attorney who moved his practice after eight years with Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
A Delaware bankruptcy judge said Wednesday he would schedule a hearing in August to resolve competing motions for summary judgment on Yellow Corp.'s objection to several pension plans' claims for more than $6 ... (more story)
Bankrupt cryptocurrency firm Terraform Labs has asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to give it a head start on winding down pursuant to a $4.5 billion settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,... (more story)
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The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation on Wednesday revoked the financing lending license of Synapse Credit LLC, a subsidiary of Synapse Financial Technologies, whose April bankruptcy... (more story)
A Florida federal bankruptcy judge denied a request Wednesday by an attorney who was acquitted last year in a billion-dollar medical fraud scheme to dismiss his Chapter 11 case and instead converted it to Chap... (more story)
Real estate developer JGA Development LLC, which owns and operates 84 units and has been developing dozens more, filed for Chapter 11 protection in New Jersey on Tuesday with up to $50 million each of assets and liabilities.
A Texas pipe distributor has filed for Chapter 11 in the Lone Star state, as the company hopes to restructure its more than $50 million in debt in the face of default notices from its main lender.
The former CEO of the company that makes Bang energy drinks urged the disqualification of a Florida federal bankruptcy judge and called for an investigation, alleging that the judge committed misconduct in the... (more story)
McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter's former chief financial officer filed for bankruptcy in New Jersey this week as he awaits sentencing for embezzling over $1.5 million from the firm over a period of years ... (more story)
One of two security and law enforcement unions embroiled in defamation suits in Michigan federal court has informed the court that it has filed for bankruptcy in Pennsylvania, pausing the claims against it a w... (more story)
A subsidiary of bankrupt DMK Pharmaceuticals Corp. faces a $16.9 million criminal fine after pleading guilty to conspiring in a scheme to ship drugs using false prescriptions, federal prosecutors announced Tue... (more story)
Indian healthcare network Glocal said its majority owner, bankrupt telemedicine tech company UpHealth, lied about business delays and exaggerated its finances as leverage in a 2020 acquisition, alleging in a D... (more story)
The operators of a chain of massage therapy franchises in California and Texas filed for Chapter 7 liquidation in Delaware bankruptcy court with nearly $32 million in debt.