Crane's

The name comes from a place in town once called Crane's Ford -- a spot where Revolutionary soldiers set up an outpost to defend Gen. George Washington's Morristown headquarters.

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Almost at once He stepped up to the sill himself, his jacket flared And fluttered up from his shirt as he came down, Air filling up the legs of his gray trousers- Like Hart Crane's Bedlamite, "shrill shirt ballooning..."

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In the lawsuit, Mr. Crane's attorneys also argued that J.P. Morgan profited heavily from its issuance of the auction-rate securities while putting Jefferson County in a financial position of "extreme risk."

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A securities firm at one point valued Mr. Crane's bonds as worth 30 cents on the dollar—a $24.5 million loss, according to court documents.

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Mr. Crane's lawsuit mirrored the angry tone of Jefferson County's own lawsuit against the bank, which it filed in November 2009.

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Almost at once He stepped up to the sill himself, his jacket flared And fluttered up from his shirt as he came down, Air filling up the legs of his gray trousers- Like Hart Crane's Bedlamite, "shrill shirt ballooning..."

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Almost at once He stepped up to the sill himself, his jacket flared And fluttered up from his shirt as he came down, Air filling up the legs of his gray trousers- Like Hart Crane's Bedlamite, "shrill shirt ballooning..."

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Mr. Crane's lawsuit against J.P. Morgan's securities division, which was originally filed in February 2010, argued that the bank concealed bribery deals with Jefferson County officials when it marketed the sewer bonds.

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Almost at once He stepped up to the sill himself, his jacket flared And fluttered up from his shirt as he came down, Air filling up the legs of his gray trousers- Like Hart Crane's Bedlamite, "shrill shirt ballooning..."

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Bank officials who knew the extent of Jefferson County's debt burdens, Mr. Crane's attorneys argued, should have known that it was marketing an "unstable debt structure" to investors.

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