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Image via Wikipedia Most of you who live in or around Washington DC will remember the name of George Stanley McGovern, the statesman -from South Dakota who served his country for 24 years as a Democratic Senator, then lost the Presidential election to Richard Nixon by a landslide. What many of you may not know [...]

Bankruptcy is a fact of life in the United States. It happens, and it can happen to anyone. Famous people are not exempt from a bankruptcy. If you don’t believe me, just ask people like MC Hammer, La Toya Jackson, Larry King, and Margot Kidder, just to name a few of the famous on a [...]

Melvin Mourin Belli was a famous American lawyer who became known as the “King of Tort” because he won over $600 million in judgments for his clients, often famous or celebrity. Born in the California Gold Rush town of Sonora, California in 1907 to immigrants from Switzerland, Belli grew up on the West Coast graduating [...]

Bowie Kuhn, Baseball Hall of Fame inductee of 2008, former legal counsel to Major League Baseball for 20 years, and former Commissioner of Baseball for almost 15 years, was once accused by creditors of selling his home in New Jersey and fleeing to Florida to avoid bankruptcy proceedings. That accusation was made according to news [...]

Image via Wikipedia Excerpts from a news article retrieved on July 1, 2010 from the website archives of the New York Times and posted December 17, 1981 by an author unlisted, read: “Archie and Ray Griffin, former stars for Ohio State and current members of the Cincinnati Bengals, have filed for personal bankruptcy after a [...]