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Judge Gives OK for Trustee to Examine Rogoff Finances

Judge Gives OK for Trustee to Examine Rogoff Finances

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A public trustee will be allowed to look at bank statements, cancelled checks and documents related to a $13 million loan taken out by former Alaska Dispatch News owner Alice Rogoff, the Alaska Journal of Commerce reported. At a Jan. 18 hearing, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Gary Spraker said that the permission comes with conditions to protect confidentiality, but he ordered that outright objections to looking at “certain” documents on the part of Rogoff’s Northrim Bank attorney are too vague and need to be spelled out more specifically. He said he’s “not going to rule on the question en masse.” The bankruptcy case, filed as a chapter 11 reorganization on Aug. 12, 2017, and converted to a chapter 7 liquidation after the sale of the company Sept. 11, is still in the discovery phase to find assets for repaying Rogoff’s $2.3 million in debts to dozens of local and national businesses and individuals.