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The U.S. Attorney’s Office alleged in court papers that one of his businesses, Ohio-based Fair Finance Co., operated as
a Ponzi scheme.
Here are the 10 offerings that I most enthusiastically recommended to friends and readers in the past year.
Two more local homebuilders fell victim in 2009 to the prolonged meltdown of the housing market. Carmel-based
C.P. Morgan Communities LP closed in February, and Indianapolis-based Hansen & Horn Group Inc. is teetering on the edge
of bankruptcy.
By giving tickets to A&E events, you get a sincere thank you now and another one later.
For the head of an 11,000-employee company, Bryan Bedford has all the profile around these parts as a participant in the
federal witness protection program.
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra experienced a year of financial and leadership shocks, as it reported a $2.8 million
budget shortfall and abruptly dismissed Music Director Mario Venzago.
Mel Simon, who
died at 82 on Sept. 16, changed how America shops. He was chairman emeritus of locally
based Simon Property Group Inc., the nation’s largest owner of retail real estate.
Another year of rapid change at Eli Lilly and Co. did little to move the company out from under the cloud cast by its best-selling
drug, Zyprexa.
President Myles Brand died after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He is remembered for firing Indiana University basketball
coach Bob Knight, but he later became hailed as a reformer as head of the NCAA.
After 36 years of flying smaller planes painted in the colors of the major airlines for which it flies under contract,
Republic Airways Holdings in 2009 became a branded airline operator of its own.
The Indianapolis
Airport Authority hired John D. Clark III as CEO, luring him away from Jacksonville Florida.
Hard-hit Elkhart County could become home three electric vehicle manufacturers if a Norwegian company chooses northern Indiana
as the site for a new factory.
Clear signs emerged in 2009 that the Hoosier gambling market is oversaturated.
Major credit rating agencies expressed concerns that several casinos, including the state’s new horse track “racinos”
on the outskirts of Indianapolis, might go bust before the year was finished.
Ann Lathrop is the new CEO of the Marion County Capital Improvement Board, which oversees the Indiana
Convention Center, Conseco Fieldhouse and Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
The outlook for commercial real estate development continued to worsen in 2009, as one major name faltered and other companies
scrambled to redesign their business models and capitalize on the carnage.
The past year has been mighty unkind to the Capital Improvement Board, the entity charged with operating the city’s
professional sports venues and Indiana Convention Center.
The housing meltdown and recession gave banks in Indiana and across the nation their biggest test in decades.
Mark Schroeder, CEO of Jasper-based German American Bancorp, was one of just 12 community bankers who talked shop Tuesday
with the president and Treasury secretary.
Congress is on the cusp of transforming health insurance—if it can pass a health reform bill that was losing popularity
late in the year.
The decade witnessed a massive terrorist attack, two wars, and a building-and-buyout boom fueled by easy credit.