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...Then, a mere 10 hours before the bankruptcy filing, a company lawyer changed the address of the shell corporation to a post office box in Houston....
...Or are they, you know, pioneering a new way to use the bankruptcy system? Michela TinderaRight now, there are just four known examples of corporations that are using the Texas two-step....
...A last-minute $787.5mn settlement from Fox, accused of airing false claims about his client, voting-machine maker Dominion, was a “ringing endorsement for truth, and for democracy”, said the Texas-based...
...What else we’re reading The US legal move letting corporations off the hook 3M, the conglomerate, is part of a recent trend whereby US corporations make use of the bankruptcy court not because they are...
...The question has been sparked by a recent court decision in the Texas bankruptcy case of mattress maker Serta Simmons, which threatens to escalate creditor-on-creditor fighting, DD’s Eric Platt and Sujeet...
...Peers of Schwartz told DD he was a skilled operator who navigated Goldman’s trading division through the financial tumult of 2008....
...On today’s episode, we examine whether Johnson and Johnson’s Texas two-step manoeuvre is setting a new precedent for corporations to evade accountability in America....
...“But to say to American Airlines, which is based in Texas, ‘You are prohibited from imposing a vaccine mandate’ . . ....
...As executive chairman of News Corp and co-chairman of Fox Corporation, he will become one of a handful of nonagenarians still running a listed US company....
...picked her youngest son to be a United States senator.”...
...A New Jersey native and son of an investment banker, he attended North Carolina’s Duke University, where he joined a fraternity and played football as place-kicker....
...Robert Jeffress, a megachurch pastor from Texas, likes to recount the story of how he first met Donald Trump, star of US reality TV. It was mid-2015, not long into the Republican primary race....
...A veteran of the war for independence, he joined the government in 1962 and lived through a series of power struggles to become president in 1999....
...about 600 corporations....
...The UK-based engineering group is in talks to sell its automotive division, a huge part of its business, to US rival Dana Incorporated. Full story here....
...Peter MacGill, director of Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York, asked, “How often does a major corporation get to play the role of co-author and patron in the writing of the stuff of history?”...
...If you ask them to go to Texas, they will go to Texas.”...
...The son of the founder of Lynch & Mayer, a pioneering money manager from the 1970s, has his own $3.4bn mutual fund — the Morgan Stanley Institutional Growth fund — which has put money into the likes of...
...The tale of racial division in Kansas City is depressingly familiar....
...Innovations driven by an industry veteran called George Mitchell had made it possible for the first time to produce gas at commercially viable rates from formations such as the Barnett Shale of north Texas...
...He is survived by his wife, Christina, whom he met at Bell, as well as a son and two daughters....
...Stephen Sunnucks, previously president of Gap’s European division, will now head the group’s entire international operation, which is being combined into a single division, run out of London....
...Both of Sam’s sons had multiple marriages; Edgar married five times and has many children. His son, Sam II, was kidnapped in 1975 for a huge ransom....
...In a town called Cornelia, Arthur Cook, a burly veteran member of the squad, watched from the car park for the last customers to leave. Then he gave a signal....
...for poverty in poor nations and ignoring huge divisions of interest within the developing world....
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