Bankruptcy judge: Victim must pay back thief

[WriteDown]

Source: AP

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Mark Poveromo feels ripped off twice over. A judge ordered him to repay money he collected from a builder convicted of stealing from him — and told him to kick in the thief's attorney fees and court costs, too.

Some legal experts say the case, in which a criminal case in Connecticut intersects a bankruptcy judgment filed in St. Louis, shows a need for Congress to revise the nation's bankruptcy laws to better treat people who are awarded money as part of ruling in a criminal case.

"This is an outrageous decision," said Anthony Sabino, a law professor at St. John's University and a bankruptcy expert. "I think it's a miscarriage of justice."...

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26835746/from/ET/

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Sounds like the judge knows the builder

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Pretty much describes the current bailout,

except that they didn't particularly pay us any restitution in the first place.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. Someone should check the judge's portfolio and social networks.

[Sivafae]

3. That was a terribly written. But it does not surprise me at all.

[HopeHoops]

4. Gee, from the headline it sounds like Bush's "bailout" of Wall St.

We're the victims, and we get to pay the thieves.