bankruptcy

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• A Delaware judge on Friday gave the green light to Simon to become part owner of Brooks Brothers, the two-centuries-old menswear retailer that was tipped into bankruptcy last month by the coronavirus pandemic.

• A huge portion of consumer bankruptcies involve at least some amount of gambling that occurs.

• During the first half of 2020, total bankruptcy filings — the vast majority of which were by individuals — were actually down 23 percent relative to the first half of 2019, according to court data from Epiq AACER.

• Doing a few things that would slow down any sort of bankruptcy proceedings for any particular companies is probably the right thing.

• Last year, Purdue filed for bankruptcy, but not before members of the Sackler family, the company’s owners, redirected more than $10 billion from the firm’s accounts into their own.

• Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice turned herself in to serve a 15-month sentence for bankruptcy fraud.

• Slim turned Bush down, and Lehman filed for bankruptcy in September 2008, just weeks before the presidential election.

• So while mourning the closing of De Robertis, consider that we might someday mourn the bankruptcy of whatever chain replaces it.

• “Half of the stuff is gone because my wife took it, you know,” Roger Williams said during a bankruptcy-related hearing.

• This was a series that traded the glorification of moral bankruptcy for family values.