In at least one case, Burden is accused of using an outright forgery to take a house from a dead woman and her surviving son, then sell it the same day for $100,000.
A U.S. bankruptcy judge rejected the Catholic church's argument that it should be allowed to keep paying monthly stipends to staff accused of sexual abuse.
New Orleans is paying to relocate all remaining residents of a bankrupt apartment complex where people said a landlord's neglect forced them into unsanitary living conditions with rampant mold, rodents and a broken pipe that spewed raw sewage.