A creditor, who objected to a debtor's payments of professional fees to other firms by order of the bankruptcy court, failed to prove on appeal that the district court had jurisdiction to hear the case.

Foreign petroleum company was the alter ego of competing factions of the foreign government where each faction controlled the company's operations in various countries around the world and directly benefitted from the profits of those operations and where each faction expressly described the company and its subsidiaries as assets of the state.