Becky Yerak
Bankruptcy Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Becky Yerak |Denny Jacob
The Brazilian airline, started by a JetBlue founder, is the latest Latin American carrier to seek protection from creditors in chapter 11May 28, 2025 6:30 pm ET|WSJ ProBrazilian airline Azul has filed for chapter 11 protection in the U.S., becoming the latest Latin American carrier to seek bankruptcy following prolonged industry headwinds.
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Becky Yerak
Tuesday’s ruling leaves the youth group’s compensation plan, which was approved by a bankruptcy judge in 2022 and took effect in 2023, largely intact. The chapter 11 plan resolved all sex-abuse claims against the Boy Scouts, its affiliated local councils and civic, nonprofit and religious groups that held or sponsored scouting activities but that themselves aren’t in bankruptcy.
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2 months ago |
yahoo.com | Becky Yerak
Kevin James is a stand-up comedian, starred in the long-running sitcom “King of Queens” and the movie “Paul Blart: Mall Cop,” and played a lead role in the movie “Hitch” and many others. In recent years, he played a new, not-so-coveted role: the owner of a $14 million mansion that turned out to be sort of a lemon. James has been thrust into the bankruptcy of National Realty Investment Advisors, a real-estate developer that filed for chapter 11 protection in 2022.
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2 months ago |
wsj.com | Becky Yerak
National’s creditors continue to go after what’s left of the Secaucus, N.J.-based firm’s assets. One of those assets is a portion of the proceeds from a 2021 sale of the Delray Beach, Fla., mansion to James. A trustee charged with retrieving National’s assets is suing James to get back some money that was put aside to make repairs to the mansion upon the sale’s closing. But, the trustee alleges, James didn’t make the repairs, the escrowed cash wasn’t spent, and James has since sold the property.
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2 months ago |
flipboard.com | Becky Yerak
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Early in the pandemic I bought this bag of instant nonfat dry milk. I finally used it up recently, & it was pretty good, in case you’re ever in the market for any https://t.co/FX7CQPT9BI
Almost a year after it went out of business, Redbox still has movie kiosks in public. This one was outside of a now-vacant Walgreens that I walked by yesterday on a three-mile errand. A Redbox feature I did last October, edited by @radamsWSJ, has been one of my fave @WSJ stories https://t.co/MlUAE6swnE
Actor Kevin James, whose given surname is Knipfing, has settled the lawsuit that was filed against him by the trustee for bankrupt real estate developer National Realty Investment Advisers: https://t.co/G1FtY9jPX3