WaMu Bankruptcy Judge Agrees to Drop Insider-Trading Ruling
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The judge overseeing Washington Mutual Inc.’s bankruptcy agreed to drop a ruling that hedge funds may have engaged in insider trading.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Mary Walrath in Wilmington, Delaware, found in September that there was enough evidence of insider trading to allow a lawsuit to be filed against four hedge funds that hold billions of dollars of WaMu’s debt.