The Thugs Win
A group of Chrysler creditors opposing the carmaker's reorganization is likely to disband after two more investment firms withdrew from its membership, a person briefed on the matter told DealBook on Friday.
The withdrawals of OppenheimerFunds and Stairway Capital Management will likely drop the group, calling itself the Committee of Non-TARP Lenders, below 5 percent of Chrysler's $6.9 billion in secured debt, this person said. That would almost certainly eliminate the group's standing in federal bankruptcy court.
Ever since the group made public last week, its membership has shrunken by the day as it faced public criticism from President Obama and others. That continued withdrawal of firms led Oppenheimer and Stairway to conclude that they could not succeed in opposing the Chrysler reorganization plan in court, the two firms said in separate statements.
Just another step closer to a Mussolini-style corporate state.
Update: David Skeel argues the Chrysler bankruptcy settlement is a sham sale of the sort that was outlawed in 1938. Except, of course, when the President does it, I guess.
Matt:
I like the last line there. Perhaps we'll see a "Frost-Obama"?
May 8, 2009, 12:44 pmMesa Econoguy:
No bankruptcy proceeding in the history of this country resembles this one.
What hath Obamulini wrought?
May 8, 2009, 6:17 pmLoneSnark:
Just wait eight years and the obamamaniacs will be shocked to see Jeb Bush directly managing the bankruptcy and reorganization of the state of California (that would be fun, but I fear counter productive).
May 8, 2009, 10:54 pm