It is the case that will not rest.
While the criminal and business story of Tom Petters already has its own well-read chapter in Minnesota's corporate history book, the former Wayzata businessman is not going away quietly.
Nearly four years after a conviction that put him in prison for 50 years, Petters will get an unexpected hearing later this fall in an attempt to reduce that sentence.
His corporate bankruptcy, meanwhile, continues to stumble on as it approaches its fifth anniversary, with attorneys fees now exceeding $76 million and a payoff for creditors and victims of the $3.65 billion Ponzi scheme nowhere immediately in sight.
Bankruptcy trustee Doug Kelley said there's a potential $1 billion that he could collect on top of the $310 million in assets he's already marshaled if he gets favorable rulings from the bankruptcy judge overseeing the matter on the subject of so-called "clawbacks."
But it's been nearly two years since Kelley filed the original clawback lawsuits seeking to recover "false profits" from investors who lent money to Petters and were repaid with interest for businesses deals that turned out to be bogus.
"Once those rulings are in places, these cases will start to move quickly," Kelley said in an interview.
But Professor Ann Graham, director of the business law institute for Hamline University School of Law is not so sure.