- Missouri
A Missouri state audit found the Grandview School District in Missouri misused some proceeds from some of its $22 million worth of borrowing in recent years.
September 5 -
Bruce Cole, the head of Mamtek US, the firm that triggered a $39 million municipal bond default on debt sold for a Missouri sucralose plant, will go to prison as part of a plea deal.
September 3 - Missouri
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon wants an economic injury disaster declaration for Ferguson to secure low-interest loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration to aid businesses hurt by the large protests that followed a fatal police shooting of an unarmed teen.
September 2 -
A federal judge upheld a bankruptcy court judgment against Bruce Cole, former head of Mamtek US Inc., finding he fraudulently obtained bond funds to finance a sucralose production plant in Moberly, Missouri.
August 22 - Kentucky
A group of ratepayers from a Chicago suburb are suing five advisors and consultants, accusing them of misrepresenting the value of participation in the bond-financed Prairie State Energy Campus to the city of Batavia.
August 20 - Kentucky
Ratepayers from a Chicago suburb will file a lawsuit as soon as Tuesday seeking compensation for steep energy rate hikes they've paid due to cost overruns at the bond-financed Prairie State Energy Campus coal-fired power plant.
August 18 -
A group of bondholders trying to recoup their investment in a failed Moberly, Mo. artificial sweetener plant has added as a defendant Raymond James Financial Inc. which acquired the bond deal's underwriter and lawsuit's original target.
August 14 - Missouri
Borrowing by Midwest issuers slid 13.2% for the first half of 2014 but new-money issuance fueled by Chicago and Illinois deals helped boost new-money by 16.8%.
August 12 -
Missouri transportation officials blamed a lack of consensus on how to pay for the state's transportation needs for the failed ballot measure that sought a sales tax hike to generate more than $5 billion in new revenue.
August 6 -
The struggling Lakeside 370 Levee District in St. Charles County, Missouri has filed Chapter 9 bankruptcy as it seeks to restructure $34 million of unrated bonds in hopes of improving the project's prospects.
August 5