One giant Justice creditor agrees to dismissal of multi-million dollar lawsuit against another
A trustee for a creditor holding hundreds of millions of dollars of debt by the companies owned by Gov. Jim Justice and his family has agreed to the dismissal of a federal lawsuit against the family’s longtime banker, which also has claims on hundreds of millions of dollars in debt. The claim, in a nutshell, was that Carter Bank & Trust put the Justices in a headlock to collect enormous debt. The Justices responded by transferring money from their financially strapped Bluestone entities. Except Bluestone had gotten the money by borrowing millions of dollars from the ...