BETHEL – A probate judge has declared Nancy Lanza’s estate insolvent after the last of her $67,000 was recently paid out for back taxes and upkeep of the property where she was murdered by her son before he killed 26 people inside Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. Judge Robert Egan recently accepted a final…
Media Steers Clear of Highlighting Gov. Rauners Charitable Contribution Posted by Brittany Clingen on Friday, August 19, 2016 | Leave a Comment Governor Bruce Rauner, along with his wife and a group called Friends of the Exhibitor, delivered the winning bid for a prized steer at the Illinois State Fair. The final bid came in…
Aug. 19, 2016 16:40 Mykola Lagun (R) owned the defunct Delta Bank, which cost Ukrainian taxpayers $622 million in insurance payments to clients who lost their deposits. The Deposit Guarantee Fund said a combination of criminal fraud and bad management accounted for the bank’s epic collapse. But no one has been charged with a crime.…
How the Original Sugar Daddy Got Away with Murder Adolph Spreckels had decided to kill the editor-in-chief of the San Francisco Chronicle. The year was 1884, and the 27-year-old Spreckels wanted revenge over an article the Chronicle had published about his familys company, the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company. Spreckels father was known as the…
Greg Hinzs Unequal Coverage of Term Limits and Automatic Voter Registration Posted by Brittany Clingen on Thursday, August 18, 2016 | Leave a Comment Greg Hinz of Crains Chicago Business recently wrote two separate articles addressing public policy issues: one about term limits and the other about Governor Bruce Rauners veto of an automatic voter registration…
As 1933 dawned, the editorial writers at the Winona Republican-Herald looked forward to a year of tremendous opportunity, an optimism not likely shared by the seven out of 10 Minnesota Iron Range workers who started 1932 with no work and no prospects for jobs. Across Minnesota, more than 20 percent of wage earners were earning…
Henry Reuben Kroehnert (1884-1969) and his mother Matilda Kroehnert nee Davis (1838-1924), taken in 1899. Picture: Kroehnert family My ancestor Rudolph Franz Hugo Kroehnert arrived in Australia in 1854 on the Earl Selkirk. The graves of Rudolph and Matilda Kroehnert and four of their 14 children at St Peter’s Anglican Cemetery, Richmond. Picture: L. Knight…
Md Wira Dani Abdul Daim steps down from positions in two companies after court declares him bankrupt for failing to settle debts due to Maybank Kim Eng Securities. SINGAPORE: Former Malaysian finance minister Daim Zainuddins son has been declared a bankrupt over about SD1.65 million in debt that he owed to Maybank Kim Eng Securities.…
The son of former finance minister Daim Zainuddin has been declared bankrupt after failing to repay S$1.65 million in debts that he owed to Maybank Kim Eng Securities. Md Wira Dani Abdul Daim was made bankrupt last week, according to The Straits Times. The daily said Maybank had secured a court ruling against Wira in…
Baku, Azerbaijan, Aug. 17 By Anvar Mammadov Trend: Two Azerbaijani banks, the Caucasus Development Bank and AtraBank, licenses of which were revoked by the Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) in January 2016, have been declared bankrupt, said Azerbaijan Deposit Insurance Fund (ADIF) in a message Aug. 17. The message said the decision on the banks…