That’s right, you read this blog post headline correctly: “John L. Smith’s $15 Million Bankruptcy.”

While John L. Smith writes column upon column each week in the Las Vegas Review-Journal (LVRJ), his credibility has been directly compromised by an astonishingly large libel suit of $15 million. The actual figure that Smith tallied up in his bankruptcy filing is $15,644,671.00. That’s closer to $16 million than $15 million, but we’re giving the guy a break.

There are no fewer than 94 creditors listed in the “Schedule F” document of creditors holding claims against him. It goes on for 18 pages. You can read the details here: John L. Smith’s Bankruptcy.

All this, by the way, is publicly available information. All you have to do is look for it.