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9. Bain gets $30 million on bankruptcy deal, town gets $870K - Midas Mitt does it again

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sun Aug 12, 2012, 01:31 AM

Aug 2012

What a fricking 3rd world morass we live in. This is a justice system? The "investors," aka "plutocrats who engage in risky business" get paid million$ first in a bankruptcy proceeding while the peasants who are breathing this toxic material get almost nothing.

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