onset

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An Onset representative said the fraud committed by Patrick James “is simply staggering” and his “effort to recast himself as a victim and shift blame to Onset is nothing more than factually unsupported posturing.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

The committee called Onset a “net winner” from the alleged fraud, saying that it collected about $2.9 billion in repayments from First Brands after providing $2.5 billion in financing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

Onset used former First Brands executive Edward James for negotiations while allowing him to personally invest in the financings, generating hundreds of millions of dollars for James and outsize returns for Onset, the creditors alleged.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

A spokesperson for Onset said the creditor committee’s claims are “unsupported and baseless and strategically made as part of a spurious scorched-earth litigation tactic to serve their own financial interests in this bankruptcy.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

From some, she got no answer: Onset; Mattapoisett; even Penikese, though it was the closest.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk