In Re: Fusion Connect, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK In re: 20 Civ, 5798 (PAE) FUSION CONNECT, INC., et al., OPINION & Debtors. ORDER UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellant, -y- FUSION CONNECT, INC., ef ai., Defendants-Appellees, PAUL A. ENGELMAYER, District Judge: This appeal from a bankruptcy court ruling raises a pure question of law: whether a monetary penalty owed by a corporation as a result of a fraud on consumers is a dischargeable debt under 11 U.S.C. § 1141(d)(6)(A) where the creditor is a government entity that was not a victim of the fraud. Birch Communications Inc,…