“We’re all going to an evidentiary hearing and I’m going to figure out exactly what happened,” the judge, Christopher Lopez, said in an emergency hearing on Thursday afternoon. “No one should feel comfortable with the results of this auction.”

Oh bullshit.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      Auctions are contracts, most of them are beholden to the highest bidder. I am guessing thr lawyers are either being paid to make media waves, or they didn’t read the terms of the auction.

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        The trustee and auction house are allowed to accept lower bids. Especially ones that make the creditors more whole, which this one does. So no that’s not why

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        Sellers have a right to accept lower bids, or to accept non-monetary “value” and it happens literally every day in real estate.

        What I don’t know is whether the nature of the auction actually changes things.