In January 2012, the businessman was declared bankrupt in the Republic of Ireland.
Goldman Sachs, they say, would have gone bankrupt in the fall of 2008 but for the largesse of Uncle Sam (in the guise of Treasury Secretary Paulson).
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GM's trouble with the fake Spark probably had its roots in Korea, shortly before GM and other investors bought the assets of bankrupt Daewoo Motors in October 2002.
The facts are staggering about ex-players: 78 percent of National Football League players are either bankrupt or in financial trouble within two years of retiring, according to Sports Illustrated.
Anyone who doubts this need only look at what happened in the literally bankrupt city of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, last week.
The Armenian Sarkies brothers, who built the Strand and Raffles, went bankrupt in the rubber slump of the early 1930s.
The election of Dilma Rousseff in Brazil is generally seen as a continuation of the policies that took the country from poor and bankrupt to one of the most promising economies in the world.
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By the time of his arrest in February last year, Maher had been declared bankrupt and was living under the name of his brother, Michael, in a rented house in Ozark, Missouri.
But the cost of ensuring high quality of service in the face of constant change can bankrupt even the most cashed-up IT organization.
The three SMEs that went bankrupt in Wenzhou are facing allegations of corruption and mismanagement in local courts, suggesting that their situation may not be indicative of broader economic problems affecting enterprises of their size.
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The shipyard, in danger of going bankrupt, was given a lifeline this week when Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Competition, met with Polish officials and told the press an EU bailout of the shipyard was likely.
They picked up the Singapore trading and corporate finance arms of bankrupt Peregrine Securities in April.
When General Motors bought up parts of bankrupt Daewoo Motor in October 2002 you could almost hear the derisive laughter around the world.
The documents that have been disclosed reveal that some bishops in the bankrupt dioceses presented the diocesan funds of parishes, schools, hospitals and retirement accounts as separate when they were really simply book-keeping entries in the same pooled investment account.
In the end, it's tough to imagine that a pair of formerly bankrupt airlines struggling to claw their way back in a troubled industry won't be permitted to join forces.
They are in absolutely no danger of going bankrupt or not having the wherewithal to pay whatever claims are submitted.
It also circumvents the legal status of claims on bankrupt debtors in a way that hurts ordinary depositors to benefit sophisticated investors.
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For that matter, no social good is served by having the embezzler or the Ponzi schemer locked in a cage for the rest of his life, rather than having him bankrupt and doing community service in the South Bronx for the next decade or two.
Bernie Ebbers, the boss of WorldCom, was charged with fraud only this week although the company he ran (into the ground) went bankrupt in July 2002, and the trial of Jeffrey Skilling, the former boss of Enron, the totem for turn-of-the-century managerial abuse, could well be another two years away.
One of the officials noted that about one in 10 jobs in America is tied to the auto industry and that if one of the companies goes bankrupt, it could have a massive spillover effect in the credit industry and other sectors.
Why do I trust Gary Winnick and Jeffrey Skilling--nefarious former chief executives of notoriously bankrupt companies--more than I trust Senator John McCain of vaunted valor in prison camps or David Broder of Pulitzer fame or Senator Joseph Lieberman of famously flinty integrity?
Romney's former private equity firm, Bain Capital, acquired GST Steel in 1993, but the company went bankrupt in 2001, two years after Romney ceased day-to-day oversight of Bain.
Hogan, better known as Anna Nicole Smith, went bankrupt and died of a drug overdose in 2007.
If the government cuts funding, the health REITs run the risk of going bankrupt, as happened in the late 1990s.
Investment banker made headlines in 1999 when he briefly stepped in as chief executive of then nearly bankrupt Philippine Airlines, replacing Lucio Tan.
This week, as pilots at US Airways vote on a temporary contract that will take effect in the event of a merger with bankrupt, approval seems virtually assured.
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The tens of billions of dollars in liability would bankrupt them for sure, and what happens to them in the courts may determine whether or not they continue to exist.
In Greece, prosecutors of the nearly bankrupt nation recently asked for a new list of Greeks with Swiss bank accounts after fearing that the contents of an earlier list had been altered.
Without good medical insurance, you will be bankrupt in a very short time, as some of the patients with this disease can attest to and as Ms Ferraro alluded to- not everyone can get these treatments.
In July, the bankrupt bookseller announced plans to close all of its stores and shut down.
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