Where Uncle Nearest ends and Fawn Weaver begins

It’s been roughly a month since Tennessee whiskey concern Uncle Nearest, Inc. was placed into receivership by a federal court for defaulting on over $100 million in loans from its bank, Farm Credit Mid America. Since then, the court’s chosen clean-up man, Phillip G. Young of Thompson Burton PLLC, has been digging into the company’s records to figure out what it actually owns. Or, to put it another way, where Uncle Nearest’s holdings end, and where those of charismatic anti-union centi-millionaire cofounder Fawn Weaver and her husband, former Sony Pictures executive Keith Weaver, begin.

The receiver’s first substantive filing with the court since taking the gig in late August suggests that’s been a bit of a challenge so far.

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