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Four-time Olympic champion Michael Johnson has spoken publicly for the first time since Grand Slam Track went bankrupt, and has clarified details of payments to himself and competing athletes.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

But a court rejected the deal on grounds that if the entity could fund the trust, it wasn’t really bankrupt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Security at the bankrupt development was lax but oversight has since been improved, Petty said, with round-the-clock security guards, cameras, laser devices and tall metal walls topped with razor wire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Among other factors, the report highlighted that 500,000 Russians went bankrupt last year, that as many as 15% of bank loans were nonperforming — and that that number is likely to increase.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

The museum, in London’s Leicester Square, had been founded by Sir Ashton Lever, who had driven himself bankrupt with his unrestrained collecting of natural wonders.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the authors write, tried to ensure that only “honest but unfortunate” debtors benefited from bankruptcy’s by directing “professional bankrupts . . . to restitution or jail.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

"If the company fails… it will fail because of an advertiser boycott. And that will be what bankrupts the company." he said.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2023

“If it so happens that it bankrupts or puts these individuals and entities in financial peril, so be it,” the attorney general said in an interview when the case was filed.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2022

“If it so happens that it bankrupts or puts these individuals and entities in financial peril, so be it.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2021

"Take me away from here," she said, "you bankrupts."

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

Ruinous competition amid fixed costs bankrupted dozens of airlines in the 1980s and 1990s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

It was hugely successful, but we had a flood nine months after we opened, which bankrupted us, theoretically bankrupt, but we were able to climb out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

The cases are ongoing, with plaintiffs also filing claims against the trusts of companies bankrupted by the litigation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026

His mother's devotion to the Unification Church bankrupted the family, and Yamagami bore a grudge against Abe after realising the ex-leader's ties to the controversial church.

From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2026

It was how she spent her time, buying up as many folks as she could, and rumor was she damn near bankrupted her and the major doing it.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

But she works far fewer hours in New Zealand, gets six weeks of paid vacation and unlimited sick days, and no longer feels like her care is bankrupting patients.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

Perhaps most evil are the acquisitions of hospitals for the sole purpose of bankrupting them and selling off assets to line someone else’s pockets.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 26, 2026

If successful, Energy Transfer’s $300 million lawsuit may end up bankrupting the advocacy group as a whole, both domestically and internationally.

From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2025

The estimated bill for housing children in one local authority area has more than doubled in three years to £16m, one senior manager told the BBC, which risks bankrupting the council.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2024

Leonardo is now in Rome, where a new pope from the Medici family—Pope Leo X—is busy bankrupting the Vatican by commissioning massive new works of art.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day