Liquidation Plan of Woodbridge Group’s Ponzi Scheme Moves Forward

Oct. 29, 2018, 5:54 PM UTC

A Delaware bankruptcy judge has given the go ahead for a Chapter 11 liquidation plan for Woodbridge Group of Companies LLC, a high-end real estate developer tied to a $1 billion Ponzi scheme.

The liquidation plan for Woodbridge, consisting of 279 debtors, is reasonable and should be approved over the objections of dissenting creditors, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware held.

Substantive consolidation of the debtors in the plan is also appropriate because of the “hopeless commingling of assets and liabilities,” Judge Kevin J. Carey wrote Oct. 26.

A substantial majority of the creditors constituencies voted in ...

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