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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The New York Mets will sell 10 minority shares of the team by the end of February, according to Newsday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The minority stakes, priced at $20 million each, are designed to help the club raise $200 million to pay previously established loans as well as operating expenses moving forward. \u00A0Newsday reports that the initial revenue from those sales will go toward repaying a $40 million loan from Bank of America and a $20 million loan from Major League Baseball.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The team\u2019s financial woes stem mostly from a lawsuit against owner Fred Wilpon from the trustee in the Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme. The trustee has filed a motion asking the Wilpons to repay $83 million in \u201Cfictitious profits\u201D that the trustee believes they made from the scheme according to Newsday. The trustee is also seeking another $303 million from the Wilpons for \u201Cwillful blindness.\u201D\nLast spring the Mets had attempted to sell a $200 million stake in the team, but were unable to find an ownership group to purchase a single stake that large in the team.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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