Lingua Franca Trustee Demands Writers Return Paychecks

Lingua Franca magazine folded a couple of years ago. But freelance writers for the magazine still got paid for the last stories they turned in. Now a bankruptcy trustee says he wants freelancers to return the money or he’ll sue to get it back. It seems the writers were “unsecured” creditors, and the money “should” have gone to secured creditors. “It certainly seems unfair. These freelancers did the work and were paid the fees that they bargained for. They delivered what was asked of them.”