Debtors Beware: Seventh Circuit Finds That Serial Bankruptcy Filings May Qualify as Bankruptcy Fraud
By Michael L. Moskowitz and Melissa A. Guseynov
In an opinion of interest to debtors and creditors alike, the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed a debtor’s four-year prison sentence for filing five chapter 13 petitions in what was determined to be a scheme to defraud her creditors. U.S. v. Williams, Case No. 17-2244 (7th Cir. June 6, 2018). Read the full opinion here.