Disbarred lawyer accused of defrauding clients, including murdered children's fund
Harley Kent Desselle, 61, of Raytown, was charged in the six-count indictment with wire fraud, bank fraud, bankruptcy fraud and making a false oath in a bankruptcy case, the US attorney's office in Kansas City announced. Desselle, reached by phone late …
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Sino-Forest Has Filed for Bankruptcy: Bye Bye to All Those Billions
Sino-Forest Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection as part of a plan that may see the Chinese timber grower company sold to bondholders, nine months after it was accused of fraud by short seller Carson Block. The company obtained an initial order for …
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New mayor of Sunland Park, New Mexico, can't legally enter City Hall
If you are not happy with the results, run for and win this job yourself, see if you can do better. Most of the writers who post here do not have the guts to run for office, nor the where with all to run even a small city if they do run.
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A Struggling City Finds Inspiration In Classical Music
And now Stockton is in the news again as the town teeters on the brink of bankruptcy. Against this seemingly endless string of bad news, one of the city's prized institutions is trying to address some of Stockton's problems.
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A Turnaround Specialist Says Bankruptcy Is Becoming Unaffordable for Small …
If I sell to you and you begin to pay very slowly — which often happens before a bankruptcy — I should stop selling to you on credit. But if I continue to sell to you to make a buck, it's not your fault, it's mine. Q. So what happens instead of …
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So, you want to run an airline …
Surely you've told yourself at least once that you could do a better job running an airline, any airline, than those yahoos that are in charge. AMR Corp.'s deluge of filings in bankruptcy court Monday evening might help put a little perspective on the …
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Businesses, Religious Groups Must be "Cannibalistic"
So what does any of this have to do with cannibalism? “If you're not willing to cannibalize yourself, others will do it for you,” said Mark Zupan, dean of the University of Rochester's business school. “Technology is changing ever more rapidly, …
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Coryton refinery job fears after Petroplus go bankrupt
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