You might think bankruptcy screws the hedge fund, but it doesn’t. Bankruptcy lets them drop a bunch of debts and obligations caused by sucking all of the money out of the rest of the changes, so they get stuff and don’t have to pay for a big chunk of it before they eventually offload it to some other company.
The whole thing is vulture capitalism.
It’s crazy how a corporate entity can own a company, sell off everything that makes it valuable, and then not pay a dime when said company inevitably goes bankrupt.
Welfare, bankruptcy, and avoiding legal obligations are all apparently fine for corporations, but not people.
Yet another reason corporations aren’t people. Unless you’re a fucking vulture like Romney (formerly of Bane [sic] Capital, who bankrupted Toys-R-Us).
This is it right here and this scenario was most likely the plan from the outset, they planned on this and orchestrated it.
Isn’t this exactly what happened to Toys R Us as well? Bought up by a hedge fund, saddled with millions of dollars of debt to funnel its value to the hedge fund, then bankrupted and sold off for a pittance, laundering all the profit and wiping the debt away like it was never there. All while putting tons of people out of work.
Aka rise of the planet of the apes
I, for one, welcome our new Dr Zaus overlords.
I love you, Dr Zaius!
Same thing happened (according to the original founders that sold the company) to Mervyn’s in the west coast.
