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By Andrew Scurria  General Electric Co.’s finance unit agreed to pay $49 million to settle allegations it covered up the $2 billion Ponzi scheme perpetrated by convicted fraudster Thomas Petters. [...]

February 27, 2015 Miami law firm Meland Budwick, P.A. today announced that seven of its attorneys have been recognized as 2014 Florida Super Lawyers, with three of them included in the rating [...]

July 6, 2017 - By December 8, 2000, GE Capital Corporation (GECC) had received nearly $50 million that it had loaned to Petters Capital, a company that specialized in buying bulk lots of [...]

June 15, 2017- A lawsuit against General Electric Co.’s finance unit over its relationship with convicted businessman Thomas Petters, whose $40 billion empire collapsed in 2008, will move to [...]

June 15, 2017 - A Florida bankruptcy judge on Thursday denied General Electric Capital Corp.’s bid to escape a suit alleging it participated in the $3.6 billion Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Tom [...]

June 15, 2017 - In a 34-page ruling, Judge Paul Hyman refused to dismiss a federal lawsuit that accused the General Electric unit of conspiring to commit fraud by keeping quiet in 2000 when its [...]

January 29, 2016 - Miami attorneys from Meland Budwick, P.A. helped craft a more than $160 million liquidation plan to repay victims of one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history.

August 13, 2015 - A suit brought by Veritas Financial Partners against Adidas AG accusing the apparel company of falsely verifying invoices from a vendor to whom VFP lent nearly $14 million, [...]

July 16, 2015 BMO Harris Bank NA agreed Thursday to pay $16 million to settle an adversary suit launched by the trustee for two bankrupt Florida investment firms, which alleged a BMO unit helped [...]