The federal judge who presided over some of the complex legal battles that arose following the collapse of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme got a new messy dispute to untangle — bondholders versus Caesars Entertainment, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Judge Jed Rakoff has been reassigned the four bondholder lawsuits now pending against Caesars in a Manhattan district court, court records show. The reassignment follows the news that Judge Shira A. Scheindlin, who had previously overseen the litigation, will retire April 29, just days before a trial on two of the suits was scheduled to begin.
