Category: Jefferson County Alabama

November 10, 2011

Alabama county files biggest municipal bankruptcy

Filed under: Jefferson County Alabama - 10 Nov 2011

10 (Bloomberg) — Jefferson County, Alabama, declared the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history, capping a more than three-year saga that turned it into one of the biggest casualties of Wall Street's credit crisis. The move yesterday by Alabama's

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AL county files for largest municipal bankruptcy

Filed under: Jefferson County Alabama - 10 Nov 2011

Jefferson County Files Largest Ever Chapter 9 Filing. www.zerohedge.com. According to the Tweeter account of Birmingham News, "Jefferson County Commission makes motion to file bankruptcy." We translate this to mean

(The Birmingham News/Joe Songer) MONTGOMERY, Alabama — Gov. Robert Bentley this …