Saturday, May 19, 2012

Watchdog Asks To Stub Pot Grower’s Bankruptcy

The feds are burned out with a medical marijuana grower that it suspects isn’t quite taking its bankruptcy case seriously. A federal court watchdog wants a judge to dismiss the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case of Denver-based CGO Enterprise LLC, arguing that the company shouldn’t be allowed to reorganize its finances in a way that would allow it to continue profiting from criminal activity. U.S. trustee Richard Wieland, who patrols bankruptcy cases for the Justice Department, pointed out that CGO Enterprise executives would likely have to reorganize its operations around sales from its primary asset: $130,000 worth of unharvested marijuana leaves listed on the bankruptcy petition filed May 1 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Denver.

Read the rest of the article at the Wall Street Journal

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