October 21, 2025
A Delaware bankruptcy judge has ordered an outside broker to pay almost $60,000 in commissions she earned back to the liquidating trustee for the Woodbridge Group of Cos., finding the transfers were made in furtherance of the company's almost $1.3 billion Ponzi scheme, regardless of whether the broker was aware of the fraud.
December 07, 2021
A trustee seeking to recoup ill-gotten gains from a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme that drove Woodbridge Group of Companies LLC into bankruptcy may seek an additional $37 million from one investor in light of new allegations that he knew about the fraud, a Delaware bankruptcy judge ruled.
September 11, 2020
A liquidating trust for convicted Ponzi scammer Robert I. Shapiro's bankrupt Woodbridge Group urged a Delaware bankruptcy judge on Friday to reject one of the few objections to a U.S. Department of Justice settlement that will give the trust seized cash, jewelry and other property under a $479 million restitution order.
November 20, 2019
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Wednesday approved efforts to conduct an in-prison interview of convicted $1.3 billion Ponzi-scheme architect Robert Shapiro by a liquidating trustee pursuing assets for the estate of Shapiro's plundered Woodbridge Group of Cos.
October 08, 2019
The liquidating trust created by the Chapter 11 plan of defunct real estate investment enterprise The Woodbridge Group of Cos. asked a Delaware judge late Monday for permission to take discovery from the wife of the mastermind behind a $1.3 billion Ponzi scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
August 19, 2019
The liquidating trustee in the Woodbridge Group of Cos. Chapter 11 proceedings has filed another set of suits seeking to claw back close to $1 million that was allegedly part of its $1.3 billion Ponzi scheme.
August 08, 2019
A Delaware bankruptcy judge decided Thursday to stay out of a dispute between former investors in reorganized debtors the Woodbridge Group of Cos. and Comerica Bank, saying the matters would be more efficiently handled in a pair of California federal court actions involving the same fraudulent-transfer claims.
November 13, 2018
A group of roughly 270 real estate investors asked a federal bankruptcy judge in Delaware to pause the Chapter 11 liquidation plan of the Woodbridge Group of Cos. LLC while the creditors appeal a portion of the plan they believe extinguished their interests.
October 29, 2018
A Delaware bankruptcy judge has overturned the last objection to the Woodbridge Group of Cos. LLC's Chapter 11 plan and cleared the company to begin liquidation of its $629 million estate and payouts to victims of its founder's alleged Ponzi scheme.
October 24, 2018
After listening to objections from creditors who contend they have secured claims not recognized under Woodbridge Group of Cos. LLC's Chapter 11 plan and calls from others to move forward with confirmation so victims of a Ponzi scheme can get recovery, a Delaware bankruptcy judge said Wednesday he will soon render a decision in the matter.