PETERSON v. McGLADREY LLP

No. 14-1986.

792 F.3d 785 (2015)

Ronald R. PETERSON, as Trustee for the estates of Lancelot Investors Fund, Ltd., et al., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. McGLADREY LLP, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 7, 2015.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied August 6, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven M. Farina , Colleen McNamara , Joseph M. Terry , Katherine M. Turner , Jessica L. Pahl , Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, DC, Marcus D. Fruchter , Attorney, Schopf & Weiss LLP, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Clark Steven Tomashefsky , Stein Ray LLP, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Before BAUER, EASTERBROOK, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.


Gregory Bell established five mutual funds ("the Funds"), raised about $2.5 billion, and invested most of the money in vehicles managed by Thomas Petters, who said that he was financing Costco's consumer-electronics inventory. Instead he was running a Ponzi scheme, which collapsed in September 2008. Both Bell and Petters...

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