In 2009, Valukas was appointed bankruptcy examiner in the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers.

Law firms for Eastern, its major creditors and a court-appointed bankruptcy examiner filed the applications.

As a bankruptcy examiner, James S. Feltman has untangled the finances of many troubled companies.

Regardless, the supposed 504 sale was anything but proper, according to the bankruptcy examiner's report.

For Mr. Crawford, the bankruptcy examiner, David Gordon's explanation for the reverse stock split didn't hold water.

David Shapiro, the court-appointed bankruptcy examiner, has told several lawyers in the proceeding that four groups have expressed serious interest in buying the airline.

According to a report by a bankruptcy examiner, Ralph Mabey, the company has recovered $4 million of the $7.5 million.

The bankruptcy examiner spent over a year searching through virtually every e-mail message at the firm and didn't say he found any evidence of a cover-up.

In the opinion of the bankruptcy examiner, what followed was "extraordinary and unprecedented financial assistance."

The bankruptcy examiners' report, which I quoted in the piece, said as much.