Dawn McCarty

Betting on flashy names like Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, Shaquille O’Neal and Martha Stewart to boost blank-check companies this year left investors mostly in the red https://t.co/SqtPMDeSVt via @markets

A 100,000-square-foot Los Angeles mansion once offered at $500 million is put into bankruptcy by its developer to avoid foreclosure https://t.co/wDp148fehB via @luxury

Months before putting one of its units into bankruptcy, Johnson & Johnson offered $4 billion to settle with victims of its talc-based powder -- twice the amount it’s now proposing to pay through a forced resolution, sources say https://t.co/VnQqsNKKLF via @business

Purdue Pharma and its owners are seeking court approval of a proposal the company values at more than $10 billion to settle trillions in liabilities over its addictive painkiller OxyContin https://t.co/nHvZOb3ZIS via @business

Official advisers to Washington Prime stockholders, skeptical of the company’s proposed sale to SVPGlobal, are trying to slow down the mall landlord’s bankruptcy https://t.co/Lf9kXEYqjv via @markets

A controversial legal maneuver in Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy plan would shield a lengthy list of Sackler family members from opioid-related lawsuits forever, even though they have not themselves filed for bankruptcy https://t.co/A1rKBfOYjM via @business

With $2,300 Phone Calls, Purdue Runs Up Huge Bankruptcy Tab https://t.co/ILSqvTkJuw

In a restaurant glut, strategic buyers keep bankrupt chains afloat https://t.co/rbeV3pNaon via @markets

The Beverly Hills mansion once owned by William Randolph Hearst -- and featured in the famous horse-head scene from "The Godfather" -- is in bankruptcy protection https://t.co/G9Wk6ZAGnk via @markets

Tycoon Jia Yueting files billion-dollar personal bankruptcy https://t.co/h9FlJIhQlT via @luxury

Bankrupt utility PG&E owes a lot of money to a lot of businesses and hedge funds have bought up almost $500 million of claims from those vendors https://t.co/EEI0o1c9JK via @markets

Hedge fund group to buy sunken Titanic relics for $19.5 million after auction for the artifacts was canceled. https://t.co/UkX3Kj6RnT via @luxury

Bankrupt Titanic exhibitor sets biggest sale ever of ship relics https://t.co/oKzhQxkDon via @business

Oaktree seeks $1.5 billion in cash to top bid for Claire's https://t.co/LDJvG1zLZF via @business

Manhattan commuters choosing cars over New Jersey Transit’s poor train service are about to find that driving is no alternative after all https://t.co/ClV0RdOhvm via @business

Give me your tired, your poor... and a playground for the rich? Developers have their eyes on taxpayer-owned Liberty State Park https://t.co/uz9vM8PrNm via @bpolitics

Lawyer's "get-rich" scheme starts like B movie, ends with prison https://t.co/dLmeto06iB via @business