Article: Bell's negative net worth exceeds $5.6 million. (former Environmental Systems CEO Melvyn Bell)

Melvyn Bell, the former multimillionaire chief executive officer of Environmental Systems co., has a negative net worth of more than $5.6 million, according to a deposition of Bell taken last August.

That negative net worth is about $3.6 million worse than 1993, when U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Eisele declared Bell insolvent.

In an exhibit in the August deposition in Robert Marsh v. Melvyn Bell et al, Bell estimated his assets as of December 1996 as $1.9 million, consisting of $100,000 in equipment and antique artifacts and $1.8 million in real estate. The document doesn't describe the real estate, but most of it may be his went Little Rock home.

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