This article originally appeared as a Reuters dispatch. * Court approves June 8 deadline for trustee Giddens to file fees * Giddens and his law firm getting paid monthly * Court can retroactively reject fee requests * Fees coming out of MF Global Inc estate By Nick Brown April 10 (Reuters) – Former MF Global

This article originally appeared in Futures Magazine. The MF Global Inc. (MFGI) trustee put out an update on the status of his investigation following a hearing in front of Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn on Thursday indicating a more active pursuit of civil charges against certain officers of MF Global and MF Global Holdings itself. Giddens

This article originally appeared in the April 2, 2012 edition of Futures Magazine. BY DANIEL P. COLLINS The Commodity Customer Coalitiondelivered a memo to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder as well as U.S. attorneys from New York and Chicago and members of Congress stating that there is clear evidence of an intent to commit fraud by MF

This story originally appeared in the April 1, 2012 edition of the New York Times. BY AZAM AHMED AND BEN PROTESS MF Global customers who closed their accounts in the brokerage firm’s final days have been fuming for months about how the firm mailed checks to them, instead of promptly transferring the money electronically as usual. Many of those

This article originally appeared on CNNMoney.com. By James O’Toole @CNNMoney March 27, 2012: 5:03 PM ET Jon Corzine, a former Democratic senator and governor from New Jersey, testifies on Capitol Hill last year. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Nearly five months after some $1.6 billion in customer money went missing at bankrupt brokerage MF Global, the question remains:

This article originally appeared in the Delta Farm Press. Will firm treasurer and e-mail trail spike Corzine? Mar. 26, 2012David Bennett During a Wednesday hearing, congressional investigation of the MF Global collapse and subsequent bankruptcy — the eighth-largest in U.S. history — is expected to focus on less senior members of the brokerage’s back-room team. There is

This article originally appeared as a Reuters dispatch. By Nick Brown, Tom Polansek and Ann Saphir NEW YORK/CHICAGO | Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:53pm EDT (Reuters) – Former clients of MF Global (MFGLQ.PK) are growing more optimistic about the prospects for recovering their frozen money, which is helping to bid up the price of customer claims being resold to

This article originally appeared as part of a Reuters dispatch. By Nick Brown Fri Mar 16, 2012 8:13pm EDT (Reuters) – The primary advocate group for former MF Global customers is undertaking an effort to convert the commodities broker’s bankruptcy status to one that allows a more streamlined liquidation process, saying it would preserve more

This article originally appeared as a Reuters dispatch. By Nick Brown and Ann Saphir NEW YORK/BOCA RATON | Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:26pm EDT (Reuters) – Barclays PLC and the Seaport Group have separately begun working to group together thousands of MF Global customer claims with an eye toward acquiring the claims in bulk, according to an

This article originally appeared as a Reuters Dispatch. March 15 (Reuters) – The trustee liquidating MF Global‘s broker-dealer is asking a bankruptcy court for permission to distribute an additional $600 million to U.S. exchange customers whose accounts were frozen when the futures broker collapsed. Trustee James Giddens announced the plan in court papers on Thursday, saying he would