Williamsburg Hotel’s Bankrupt Owner Loses Bid to Limit Probe

The bankrupt owner of the Williamsburg Hotel in Brooklyn must give a court-appointed examiner access to all information related to his investigation regarding the company’s transactions, a bankruptcy judge ruled.

The examiner has a valid basis for his requests for information related to non-debtors, Judge Robert Drain of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York said at a hearing Monday. Williamsburg Hotel owner 96 Wythe Acquisition LLC’s accounts show that the company made pre-bankruptcy transfers to the non-debtors in question, the judge said.

96 Wythe, which filed for Chapter 11 in February 2021, has argued that ...