Nashville at law: Sommet trustee moves on assets, founders

Also: SEC action against Brentwood firm nears end and radio spat continues [From our print edition featured in Monday's City Paper]
Oct 17, 2010 9:36 AM

Trustee seeks personal bankruptcy against Whitfields

New lawsuit asks court to combine interests of Sommet, its founders and related companies in single Chapter 7 liquidation proceeding
Oct 11, 2010 2:56 PM

Captured

Franklin fugitive who went on the run with wife and 10 children caught in Guatemala
Oct 6, 2010 10:11 AM

Fraud defendant goes missing on trial date

Brentwood man was facing charges for alleged con scheme in tandem with founders of 'Hands for Jesus Foundation'
Oct 5, 2010 3:23 PM

Park sentenced to eight years

Judge also orders restitution of millions, but talks of 'extraordinary post-arrest rehabilitation'
Sep 29, 2010 3:14 PM
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Sommet trustee seeks contempt finding against Whitfields

CEO Brian Whitfield and wife Marsha accused of 'shocking' fraud and violation of Bankruptcy Court orders; in testimony, they take the Fifth 291 times
Sep 20, 2010 11:13 PM

Feds drop charges against Nashville's Blagojevich

Local businessman sees U.S. Attorney in Chicago back down from accusations many saw as unwarranted and overreaching
Aug 26, 2010 12:07 PM

Franklin man sentenced in Ponzi scheme

William Walter Spencer gets the maximum
Aug 24, 2010 12:52 PM
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Ponzi figure Stokes dies in prison

$19M fraud took retirement savings from thousands of victims; death follows complaints by prisoner of poor health care
Aug 10, 2010 11:49 AM

Sommet: Things fall apart

Company founder Brian Whitfield faced claims of impropriety in an earlier venture. Past as prologue?
Jul 11, 2010 11:02 AM