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July 10, 2024
Rite Aid, DOJ Craft $410M Settlement Of Opioid Sale Claims
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 pharmacy chain dispensed opioids illegally, the DOJ announced Wednesday.
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July 10, 2024
Feds Say Guo Ran 'Fraud Empire' As Racketeering Trial Wraps
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 than $1 billion on scam investments.
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July 10, 2024
Acis Can't Intervene In Highland Capital Ch. 11 Claim Conflict
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 Wednesday, saying there isn't enough overlap with a pending adversary action Acis filed in its own bankruptcy to give it intervenor standing.
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July 10, 2024
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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July 10, 2024
Petersen Health Care Gets OK To Sell Nursing Homes In Ch. 11
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 to the deals from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and others.
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July 10, 2024
Judge Urges Deal On Puerto Rico Utility Bond Claims
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 prospects for compromise on disputes over bond claims.
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July 10, 2024
Redbox Parent To Liquidate After 'Train Wreck' Mismanagement
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 the Chapter 11 case to a Chapter 7 liquidation, with lenders unwilling to extend new financing amid doubts about the remaining value of the firm.
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July 10, 2024
Giuliani Urges DC Court Not To Disbar Him Over Trump Work
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 presidential election.
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July 10, 2024
Cooley Adds Bankruptcy Atty From Gibson Dunn To LA Office
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.
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July 10, 2024
$6B Yellow Corp. Pension Fund Fight Set For August Hearing
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 billion in retirement-fund withdrawal liability.
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July 10, 2024
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.
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July 10, 2024
Terraform Asks To Start Ch. 11 Wind-Down Ahead Of Plan Date
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, including converting bitcoin holdings to fiat currency, saying that doing so will mitigate administrative costs.
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July 09, 2024
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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July 09, 2024
Settlement Urged Before Decision In Invitae Debt Deal Row
A New Jersey bankruptcy judge Tuesday urged Invitae and its unsecured creditors committee to continue trying to reach a settlement before he issues a preliminary ruling Friday on whether the committee has standing to pursue litigation against the genetic testing company.
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July 09, 2024
5th Circ. Presses SEC On Whistleblower Award Calculation
The Fifth Circuit heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case accusing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of shortchanging two whistleblowers who uncovered the largest fraud in Texas history, with one judge pressing the agency's attorney over how much money it was able to collect after the fraudster declared bankruptcy.
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July 09, 2024
Purdue Plans 'High-Speed' Bid For New Ch. 11 Plan
Purdue Pharma told a New York bankruptcy judge Tuesday that it plans a two-month "high-speed, high-stakes" attempt to replace the Chapter 11 plan shot down by the U.S. Supreme Court last month before unleashing litigation on its former owning family.
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July 09, 2024
FTX Bahamas Says Celsius Can't Ask US Court To OK Suit
The foreign representatives of FTX Digital Markets Ltd. asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to block the litigation administrator of Celsius Network LLC from suing the company in New York, saying the purpose of the Chapter 15 case is to avoid precisely this kind of assault.
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July 09, 2024
3 States Ask High Court To Freeze Biden's Debt Relief Plan
Three state attorneys general applied to the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to vacate the stay of a nationwide injunction in an effort to pause implementation of a $475 billion student loan debt forgiveness program, saying they are likely to succeed in their attempts to have the program invalidated by the high court.
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July 09, 2024
2 Cooperators In Bankman-Fried Case To Be Sentenced In Fall
Two former FTX executives who pled guilty and testified for the government at the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange's founder, will be sentenced this fall, a New York federal judge said Tuesday.
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July 09, 2024
EV Co. Fisker To Get OK For Week's Worth Of Cash In Ch. 11
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Tuesday said he would give electric-vehicle maker Fisker Group Inc. approval to use cash collateral for another week in its Chapter 11 case after the debtor reassured unsecured creditors regarding limits on committee fee reimbursements.
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July 09, 2024
Ex-DOJ Atty Tells Guo Jury Of Illicit Extradition Campaign
Prominent Chinese Communist Party critic Miles Guo capped off his defense to $1 billion fraud charges Tuesday with testimony from a former U.S. Department of Justice attorney, who admitted to participating in a plot to lobby the U.S. government for Guo's extradition to China.
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July 09, 2024
Ex-NRA Finance Chief Agrees To 10-Year NY Nonprofit Ban
A former chief financial officer of the National Rifle Association has agreed not to serve as a fiduciary of a New York nonprofit for 10 years as part of a settlement in the state attorney general's suit in state court alleging he and other executives misused donor money, according to deal terms disclosed Tuesday.
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July 08, 2024
Purdue Creditors Look To Sue Sacklers After Justices' Ruling
The official committee of unsecured creditors in the Chapter 11 case of drugmaker Purdue Pharma asked a New York bankruptcy judge on Monday for standing to bring actions against members of the Sackler family that own the company after the U.S. Supreme Court torpedoed a precarious settlement among the parties.
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July 08, 2024
Judge Jones To Be Deposed, Giuliani Seeks Ch. 7 Conversion
The ex-Texas bankruptcy judge whose undisclosed romance with a former Jackson Walker LLP partner sparked an ethics scandal and efforts by the Office of the U.S. Trustee to recoup some $13 million in fees will be deposed; Rudy Giuliani can no longer practice law in New York and asked to convert his personal Chapter 11 bankruptcy to a Chapter 7; and the U.S. Supreme Court's monumental ruling in Purdue has opened questions about other high profile Chapter 11 plans and the authority of bankruptcy courts.
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July 08, 2024
Nevada Copper Floats Up To $5.2M In Ch. 11 Worker Bonuses
Bankrupt mining operation Nevada Copper Inc. has proposed a pair of bonus plans that would allow for up to $5.2 million in retention and incentive payments for its workforce for staying with the company during its Chapter 11 case and maximizing the purchase price in a forthcoming asset sale transaction.