New liquidators of Cayman funds waste no time in suing Bear Stearns for $1 b

Just 15 days after forcibly replacing liquidators who some investors suspect may have been appointed to protect the interests of Bear Stearns itself, the new liquidators of two Cayman Islands-registered, Bear Stearns-sponsored hedge funds sued the investment bank and others for $1 billion in damages.Geoffrey Varga and William Cleghorn filed the complaint at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on April 4, 2008 in their capacity as joint voluntary liquidators of Bear Steams High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies (Overseas) Ltd. and Bear Steams High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage (Overseas) Ltd.