Commercial Fraud Committee

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Post date: Sunday, November 11, 2007
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Heather M. Forrest

Bankruptcy Judge Jeff Bohm of the U.S.

Post date: Sunday, November 11, 2007
Post date: Sunday, November 11, 2007
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Heather M. Forrest

Bankruptcy Judge Jeff Bohm of the U.S.

Post date: Sunday, November 11, 2007
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Colin T. Darke

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
-Abraham Lincoln

Post date: Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Anyone who has served as a trustee in a chapter 7 or 11 bankruptcy case has encountered the business debtor whose records are “missing.” Usually, the debtor’s offi

Post date: Wednesday, October 10, 2007
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Elizabeth Bohn

In the continuing fraud and bankruptcy saga of former music promoter Lou Pearlman, the appointed chapter 11 trustee recently filed an emergency motion against his former lawyer charging her with conduct "intended and designed to obstruct, frustrate, impede, delay and prevent the trustee and creditors of the bankruptcy estate" from pursuing their investigation of the deb

Post date: Sunday, September 09, 2007
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Irving E. Walker

In Advanced Telecommunication Network Inc. v. Allen (In re Advanced Telecommunication Network Inc.), 490 F.3d 1325 (11th Cir. 2007), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit adopted the approach set forth by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in In re Xonics Photochemical, 841 F.2d 198, 200 (7th Cir.

Post date: Sunday, September 09, 2007

A Ponzi scheme is an arrangement whereby an enterprise makes payments to investors from the proceeds of a later investment rather than from profits of the underlying business venture as the investors expected.

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Mrs. Julia Di Fiore Byrne
Co-Chair
Reid Collins & Tsai LLP
Austin, TX
(512) 647-6132

Ms. Alyson M. Fiedler, Esq.
Co-Chair
Ice Miller LLC
New York, NY
(212) 835-6315

Mr. Simon Dickson
Education Director
Mourant Ozannes
Camana Bay,


Ms. Samantha Oppenheim
Newsletter Editor
Jones Walker
New Orleans, LA
(504) 582-8641

Mr. Michael Shanahan
Special Projects Leader
Alvarez & Marsal
Philadelphia, PA
(610) 715-1313

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