MID-MICHIGAN (WJRT) - A Nevada bankruptcy court has denied a filing from the the former operator of Boyce Hydro and the Edenville Dam.
Lee Mueller owned the company and a federal judge ordered him to pay about $120 million last year for natural resource damages caused by the Edenville Dam disaster.
Boyce Hydro used to own the Edenville, Sanford, Secord and Smallwood dams. The Edenville and Sanford dams failed in 2020, causing millions of dollars in damage to property in Gladwin, Midland and Saginaw counties.
Mueller filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy protection in September. But the bankruptcy court dismissed the bankruptcy petition, saying Mueller's effort "smacked of bad faith."
"I am grateful that the courts have continued to see through Lee Mueller's obvious attempts to manipulate these proceedings in order to protect himself at the expense of the thousands of Michigan residents whose lives he's devastated," said Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel.
