Chrysler Hires Bankruptcy Attorneys
Posted: December 5, 2008 at 1:25 pm
According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, "Chrysler hired the prominent law firm of Jones Day several weeks ago as bankruptcy counsel, a move that suggests the auto maker is preparing for imminent financial failure should its efforts to persuade Congress for federal rescue funds fall short."
Douglas A. McIntyre
Lee Iacocca, Chrysler’s CEO in 1979, worked for $1 a year while his company paid back taxpayers $1.2 billion in loan guarantees. Edward Liddy, former CEO of Allstate (ALL) was paid $1 a year when he stepped in to run the crumbling AIG (AIG) as the request of Henry Paulson, who was Treasury Secretary at [...]
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