"[G]overnment leaders of the Northern Mariana Islands found out that even the expense of getting thrown out of bankruptcy court has an eye-widening price tag. Administrators who run the state pension fund for public workers of the Northern Mariana Islands -- a fund that made a 44-day attempt at Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to avoid running out of money in 2014 -- ran up a $750,937.82 legal bill before a bankruptcy judge could rule that the government-esque entity didn't qualify for protection under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code."  MORE >>