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TARP money to settle shareholder class actions

Freelance journalist Dan Slater in the NYT’s “Dealbook” (via Above the Law) spies a “bailout for the plaintiff’s bar”:

…settlements resulting from the scores of shareholder suits against TARP entities will stretch into the stratosphere.

Sure, through TARP, taxpayer money may be used to pay off mortgages and fund bonus pools. But, in what will amount to a far more expensive proposition, TARP money will also be used to line the pockets of allegedly aggrieved shareholders and the lawyers who, wrapped smugly in the flag of corporate governance, are in the process of making a billion-dollar cottage industry out of filing strike suits.

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  • TARP money to settle shareholder class actions…

    Freelance journalist Dan Slater in the NYT’s “Dealbook” (via Above the Law) spies a “bailout for the plaintiff’s bar”: …settlements resulting from the scores of shareholder suits against TARP entities will stretch into the stratosphere. Sure, t…

  • This should surprise no one…ESPECIALLY readers of O/L. I admit to having this thought months ago. :-~ <—-Todd in deep thought 0 0 0 0 0 I wonder if Obama has figured out how much TARP money will be taxed-off to pay the enormous legal bills? Oh wait, he’s a lawyer, too?

  • So Shakespeare was right all along.

    • By Bumper

  • Perhaps you cannot force a horse to drink, but an open trough will always attract pigs.

  • This assumes that the TARP money will not be repaid, right? I.e., the subject company goes bankrupt?

    • By Tom T.