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171261P.pdf   08/03/2018  U.S. Department of Labor  v.  Michael Harris
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  17-1261
   Appeal from the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Eighth Circuit   
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Murphy and Colloton, Circuit Judges] Civil case - Bankruptcy. This opinion is filed by Chief Judge and Judge Colloton pursuant to 8th Cir. R. 47E. When debtor was CEO of a company he breached his fiduciary duty when the company failed to remit funds withheld from its employees' paychecks for their health insurance plan; the Department of Labor obtained a judgment against Harris for the amount of the unremitted funds, and Harris sought to discharge this judgment debt in his Chapter 7 proceeding; held,the bankruptcy court did not err in determining the judgment debt was not dischargeable because Harris committed a defalcation when he chose to use the ERISA plan assets to pay himself and other corporate expenses.