Facebook Users Can't Find Anyone Left at Cambridge Analytica
- With no one in charge, even bankruptcy lawyers want to quit
- Firm’s former CEO hasn’t replied to requests to produce data
Pedestrians pass the building that housed the offices of Cambridge Analytica in London, U.K., on March 20, 2018.
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A federal judge overseeing the Cambridge Analytica bankruptcy is trying to head off a “Houdini act” in which everyone involved in the case disappears.
Schulte Roth & Zabel, the law firm that handled the U.K.-based firm’s U.S. bankruptcy filing, has asked permission to drop the case, saying there are no more employees left to tell it what to do. That’s a problem not only for the firm’s usual creditors, but also for Facebook users, and government agencies, as they grapple with a probe into how Cambridge may have misused Facebook data in its work for U.S. President Donald Trump in the last election.