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Erik Ahlgren

    Erik Ahlgren, a Fergus Falls, Minn., lawyer, specializes in bankruptcy trustee cases like the William "Bill" Sczepanski case. (Mikkel Pates / Forum News Service)
    Judge in farm bankruptcy orders unusual auction of Crystal Sugar payment
    MOORHEAD, Minn. — Fallout from the bankruptcy of a sugar beet grower is resulting in an unusual auction beginning next week involving American...
    business/agricultureJune 18, 2018 - 6:14am
    May 4, 2018
    At issue in a recent court action in the McM Inc. bankruptcy include transactions between McM and Ronald McMartin Sr. and and the Island Lake Irrevocable Trust property his son, Ron McMartin Jr., developed near Detroit Lakes, Minn. Photo taken Dec. 16, 2017, in Becker County, Minn., northeast of Detroit Lakes, Minn. (Forum News Service/Agweek/Mikkel Pates)
    Trustee goes after McMartin's parents: Alleges fraud, $2M in “insider” transfers
    FARGO — The trustee in the McM Inc. farm bankruptcy is asking a judge to require the parents of a bankrupt farmer to cough up more than...
    business/agricultureMay 4, 2018 - 11:00pm
    April 23, 2018
    Bill Sczepanski, 56, of Stephen, Minn., ran a farming operation that topped 27,000 acres in 2014, only to go insolvent in 2017, adversely affecting a finance company and a co-op elevator at nearby Alvarado, Minn. Photo summer 2014, at Stephen, Minn. (Forum News Service/Agweek)
    Big farm insolvency plays out in state court
    WARREN, Minn. — Bill Sczepanski's farm insolvency at Stephen, Minn., isn't as widely known as Ron McMartin Jr.'s, across the river at St....
    business/agricultureApril 23, 2018 - 6:00am
    January 12, 2018
    An auction-goer for the BMO Harris Bank bankruptcy collateral sale in Manvel, N.D., for the McM Inc. farm waits in the shade of a row of wagons. The sale brought an estimated $1.3 million to help satisfy the bank’s $42 million debt. (Forum News Service/Agweek/Mikkel Pates)
    Lake trustee of McM farm denies fraud, says banker BMO was informed
    FERGUS FALLS, Minn. — The trustee for a lake home in Minnesota involved in the McM Inc. farm bankruptcy case has denied any fraud and said...
    business/agricultureJanuary 12, 2018 - 5:25pm
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