A handful of new lawsuits seek to recover more than $1.5 million for defunct brokerage Peregrine Financial Group Inc.'s creditors from the likes of CNBC, MTV and various charitable organizations, Dow Jones Daily Bankruptcy Review reported today. Ira Bodenstein, the trustee leading Peregrine's bankruptcy liquidation, filed the lawsuits against corporate defendants, a university, several nonprofits and two individuals, court papers show. The lawsuits seek to recover funds the defendants received from Peregrine in the months before the brokerage's July 2012 collapse, which was brought on by the exposure of its founder's fraud.
