• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    How you have 400k to pay when filing for bankruptcy? Thats more than I’ve ever seen in my life.

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      4 months ago

      According to the article, he has some multi-million dollar properties in FL and NY that he’s supposed to liquidate in order to raise the funds.

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        So why couldn’t he liquidate the rest and pay the full amount?

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          The full amout Rudy is on the hook for is ~150 million. He’ll be lucky to get even 5% of that from selling his property.

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            Sorry, what I meant was why does he get to keep anything? I know he can’t pay it all, but he should have to sell everything he has to cover what he owes.

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              There are different kinds of bankruptcy, but generally it’s meant for people who are making a good faith effort to pay down their debts but are so underwater that it’s become impossible. Bankruptcy can restructure their debt in a way that makes it possible to pay off a portion of it, and often times they’ll be allowed to keep some assets (like a home or a car) since it’s generally understood that losing those things will basically guarantee that the debtor will no longer be able to earn an income. The creditors want to recover as much of the debt as they can, and understand that once they’ve made someone homeless they won’t be getting any more money.

              Of course, bankruptcy courts aren’t likely to look at a guy who has multiple multi-million dollar residences and decide he’s making a ‘good faith effort’ to pay his debts.

              What will probably happen is Rudy will be forced to liquidate his properties but be allowed to keep just enough money to afford a sad little apartment above a bowling alley or whatever. Then, after most of the money from those liquidations has been spent of lawyers fees (his own lawyers and his creditors lawyers) he’ll attempt to go through bankruptcy again and actually be successful.

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            4 months ago

            Funny how fast the magats have completely abandoned Rudy now that hes no longer a useful idiot for them.

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            Especially because buyers know he’s being forced to sell, and can therefore offer him rock bottom prices for it. Because if the sale is forced, he can’t refuse the “best” lowball offer.

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        4 months ago

        Maybe I dont know the true definition of bankrupt then. But I feel like owning multimillion dollar properties you can borrow against should probably disqualify you. Unless he already did that. Which is possible.

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          IANAL, but as an outside observer the bankruptcy stuff always seemed to me like a bit of a hail Mary/stall tactic, not a legitimate legal remedy that would actual pan out for old Rudy.

          This new agreement seems to suggest that the legal system also views it this way.

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          Bankruptcy is owing considerably more than your assets are worth, and having no realistic way of raising enough to pay back what you owe.

          A few low multimillion dollar properties doesn’t put much of a dent in what Rudy owes

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    Freeman and Moss, meanwhile, are now free to seek enforcement and payment of the $148 million verdict in federal court in Washington, D.C., where they won their case. The bankruptcy had put a hold on collection efforts.

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      I would just borrow 150 million from a bank based on the verdict, and then tell the bank to send the creditors after Rudy to collect

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