Legal Opinion
Brian T. Sullivan v. Michael R. Glenn, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 2, 2015No. 14-3213PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal presents a pair of questions of bankruptcy law: whether, if a debt is the result of fraud, the debtor can discharge the debt in bankruptcy if he was not complicit in the fraud; and whether he can discharge the debt even if the fraud was created by his agent, provided, again, that the debtor himself was not .complicit in it.
The defendants, the Glenns, were in the real estate development business. In 2007 they encountered financial difficulties and asked a loan broker named Karen Chung to try to get them a short-term loan of $250,000. She asked a lawyer named…
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