Securities broker Bear Stearns Securities Corp. has been ordered to pay $159 million to the estate of a failed offshore hedge fund for ignoring red flags about the fund’s fraudulent operating practices.
The judgment at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York is a huge boost for creditors of the British Virgin Islands-registered, New York-based Manhattan Investment Fund Ltd., whose net insolvency before the ruling was $391 million.
Articles British Virgin Islands Featured Fraud Investment Liquidations & Insolvencies USAMarch 9, 2007
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Arpad Busson Bear Stearns Burton Lifland Christopher Welsh Deloitte