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onset

[on-set, awn-] / ˈɒnˌsɛt, ˈɔn- /


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First Brands has also sued the brother, Edward James, alleging he orchestrated “usurious” financing deals for kickbacks from financier Onset Financial.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

In 2022, one employee messaged another that the Onset employee who persuaded First Brands to take an inventory loan returning 179% would be the “employee of the year,” court papers show.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

The committee called Onset a “net winner” from the alleged fraud, saying that it collected about $2.9 billion in repayments from First Brands after providing $2.5 billion in financing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

A spokesperson for Onset said the creditor committee’s claims are “unsupported and baseless and strategically made as part of a spurious scorched-earth litigation tactic to serve their own financial interests in this bankruptcy.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

From some, she got no answer: Onset; Mattapoisett; even Penikese, though it was the closest.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk




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