For those of you who have been living in a cave without access to any news of the day, I would bring you up to speed on the ever expanding sex abuse/sexual harassment scandal that implicates many famous Hollywood types, politicians, religious leaders, big business execs, . . . , and the list just keeps on growing; but if you’re still living in your cave, you probably won’t read this post.
For those of you who aren’t living in a cave, but haven’t been paying attention to the salacious details, here’s the classic comic book version. Many famous and powerful people have recently been accused of sexual harassment. The list of the accused includes both men and at least one woman. As the list grows, the likelihood that at least one accuser (maybe many more) will file civil actions against the accused increases. Since this is a bankruptcy blog, our question of the day is:
Question: Can the accused discharge any financial liability associated with the (alleged) harassment in bankruptcy?
Leaving aside the fact that most, if not all, of the accused are multimillionaires who probably won’t seek bankruptcy protection, the question is still worth addressing because people who don’t occupy the rarified world of big ticket corruption can still face such accusations.
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