June 09, 2023
The Eighth Circuit on Friday ruled that a lower court was correct to bar Ritchie Capital Management from pursuing a claim against JPMorgan Chase related to Tom Petters' $3.7 billion Ponzi scheme after a court-appointed receiver previously reached a settlement with the bank.
May 09, 2018
Hedge fund Ritchie Capital Management told a Minnesota federal judge Tuesday the district court's lack of jurisdiction to approve a $2.5 million settlement between J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and the receivership over the assets of fraudster Thomas Petters was one of several reasons to block the deal.
September 27, 2017
A Minnesota federal judge on Wednesday denied a bid by Ritchie Capital Management and other intervenors to terminate the receivership over the assets of fraudster Thomas Petters, saying that scrapping the receivership now would threaten efforts to recover funds for all of the other victims and creditors who were caught up in Petters' $3.7 billion Ponzi scheme.
September 15, 2015
A Minnesota federal judge on Monday denied a bid by Ritchie Capital Management LLC to lift a litigation stay shielding the $3.7 billion Thomas Petters Ponzi scheme receivership, finding the hedge fund's bid to recover from defendant JPMorgan Chase & Co. could hamper receiver Douglas A. Kelley's own litigation against the megabank.
February 26, 2014
Hedge fund Vicis Capital Master Fund Ltd. will return $7.5 million it received on an investment in Thomas Petters' $3.7 billion Ponzi scheme, resolving a bankruptcy clawback suit through a settlement approved Tuesday by a Minnesota federal judge.
March 12, 2012
A Minnesota federal judge on Monday allowed the liquidating trustee of two bankrupt hedge funds to intervene in the suit against Ponzi schemer Thomas Petters but refused to lift a stay on litigation against a co-conspirator until a criminal case and liquidation are completed.
July 20, 2011
Prosecutors on Tuesday broadened their crackdown on Thomas J. Petters' $3.7 billion Ponzi scheme, heaping new charges in Minnesota on one of the scheme's primary fundraisers and implicating yet another hedge fund manager in the fraud.