Jon Corzine, the former head of bankrupt broker MF Global Holdings Ltd., was sued by the holding company's trustee, Louis J. Freeh, for failing in his duty to oversee the company and causing the eighth-biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history.
The suit, filed in U.S. bankruptcy court in Manhattan, alleges that Corzine, the company's chief executive officer and a former governor and senator from New Jersey, along with senior executives Bradley Abelow and Henri Steenkamp, failed to act in good faith and implemented strategies that caused the company to fail.
"The trustee brings this action for acts and omissions that culminated in the business collapse of the company and the bankruptcies of the debtors," according to the complaint.
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