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Anne Wojcicki, chief executive officer and co-founder of 23andMe Inc., speaks during the 2020 Makers Conference in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. The event gathers industry leading females for roundtable discussions to help inspire the women of tomorrow. Photographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images

23andMe sets new auction with $305 million new bid from ex-CEO

By Steven Church and Bloomberg

WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 13: John J. Ray III, CEO of FTX Group, testifies before the House Financial Services Committee during a hearing titled Investigating the Collapse of FTX, Part I in the Rayburn House Office Building at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022 in Washington, DC. The US Securities and Exchange Commission charged disgraced cryptocurrency tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried on Tuesday with defrauding customers of billions of dollars. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

FTX CEO who led ‘model’ bankruptcy is up for $41 million bonus

By Bloomberg, Jonathan Randles, and others

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – APRIL 24: A placard is displayed in a closed store of Bed Bath & Beyond on April 24, 2023 in New York City. Bed Bath & Beyond filed for bankruptcy protection after the struggling failed to secure enough founds to stay open. (Photo by Leonardo Munoz/VIEWpress)

Higher interest rates sent business bankruptcies soaring 17% from the previous month in the latest sign of economic trouble

By Steven Church and Bloomberg

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JULY 07: Customers shop at a Christmas Tree Shops on July 7, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Lian Pan/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)

Workers at bankrupt retail chain were promised a bonus to show up during its liquidation sale. But now they won’t be paid

By Steven Church and Bloomberg

a person uses Johnson & Johnson baby powder.

Johnson & Johnson offers $8.9 billion settlement to roughly 60,000 people who claim its talc products gave them cancer

By Jef Feeley, Steven Church, and others

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES – 2023/01/03: Former CEO of FTX Sam Bankman-Fried leaves the Federal Court after pleading not guilty on charges related to the collapse of his company. Sam Bankman-Fried faces eight charges related to the collapse of his former crypto exchange FTX and hedge fund Alameda Research. His trial scheduled on October 2, 2023. (Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

U.S. government seizes Robinhood shares worth $460 million in its fraud case against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried

By Steven Church and Bloomberg

Sam Bankman-Fried attends a press conference at the FTX Arena in downtown Miami

Bahamas asked Sam Bankman-Fried to mint millions in new crypto and transfer it to government control as FTX collapsed, lawyers say

By Steven Church, Jeremy Hill, and others

Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and chief executive officer of FTX Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange, speaks during the Bloomberg Crypto Summit in New York, US, on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. The Bloomberg Crypto Summit brings together top names from the worlds of tokens, blockchain, Web3, NFTs, decentralized finance, economics, investing, venture capital, and more to talk about whats real and whats speculation, and what smart money should know about the next phases of growth in this ascendant industry. Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Crypto contagion from FTX’s implosion threatens other companies: ‘There are still many more bankruptcies’

By Steven Church, Jeremy Hill, and others

Retailer Century 21 filed for bankruptcy protection this week. The chain and its 1,400 jobs could’ve survived if its insurance providers made good on $175 million that Century 21 says is due under its business interruption policies.

Got interruption insurance? These companies found it’s useless in the age of COVID-19

By Steven Church, Jeremy Hill, and others

UNITED STATES - AUGUST 07: Robert E. Murray, chief executive officer and president of Murray Energy Corporation, speaks to the media regarding efforts to save six miners who are trapped in a Crandall Canyon Mine located northwest of Huntington Utah on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2007. (Photo by Kenny Crookston/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

This Coal Baron Pushed Trump to Save U.S. Miners. Now His Company Is Going Bankrupt

By Steven Church, Will Wade, and others

PURDUE PHARMA, STAMFORD, CT, UNITED STATES - 2019/09/12: Members of P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) and Truth Pharm staged a protest on September 12, 2019 outside Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, over their recent controversial opioid settlement. Participants dropped hundreds prescription bottles of OxyContin while holding tombstones with the names of opioids casualties and banners reading "Shame on Sackler" and "200 Dead Each Day". (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Purdue Pharma’s $10 Billion Bankruptcy Plan to Settle Opioid Epidemic Claims Heads to Court

By Jef Feeley, Steven Church, and others

Protesters Demand Resignation Of Puerto Rico's Governor Ricardo Rossello

Puerto Rico Chaos May Empower Board in Bankruptcy Hearings as Rossello Exit Looms

By Steven Church, Michelle Kaske, and others