Judge May Seek Criminal Referral for Marble Ridge’s Kamensky

A bankruptcy judge in Texas raised the question of whether the findings of an investigation into Marble Ridge founder Dan Kamensky should be referred to federal prosecutors to determine whether the investment manager committed a crime.

At the end of a court hearing Friday afternoon, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David R. Jones asked lawyers for the Office of the U.S. Trustee, an arm of the Department of Justice that deals with bankruptcy matters, whether they had given the results of their probe into Kamensky to federal prosecutors. The Trustee’s office said on Wednesday that the hedge fund manager had improperly tried ...