When none of the money surfaced, the production collapsed on Sept. 30, one day before rehearsals were to begin, but not before Mr. Hotton had collected his money — including $18,210.88 for a supposed African safari with one phantom investor, "Paul Abrams," and the investor's eldest son, the authorities said.
But this fairy tale collapsed on Dec. 22 along with the impoundment that contained one billion gallons of wet coal sludge, which -- like a tsunami of toxic waste -- buried thousands of acres, many of then inhabited, in Roane County, Tennessee.
He collapsed on Feb. 16 in Mansfield, Pa.
But then Lehman Brothers collapsed on Sept. 15.
D. Blech & Company collapsed on Sept. 22, 1994.
The Interstate 35W bridge collapsed on Aug. 1, 2007, killing 13 and injuring 145.
Their latest effort collapsed on October when shareholders rejected the family's $10.6 billion buyout bid.
When MF Global collapsed on Oct. 31, regulators discovered that large amounts of client money had vanished from the firm.
Seven World Trade Center, which collapsed on Sept. 11, housed offices for the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Internal Revenue Service and the Secret Service.
His 10-year-old son died along with more than 70 others when their tenement collapsed on Nov. 15.
The firm collapsed on Oct. 31 after announcing that it had a more than $1 billion shortfall in customer cash.
