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  • Icahn Should Give Up Running Other People's Money  [View article]
    Carl Icahn will teach you how to steal every penny from the minority shareholders when he is the majority shareholder and the chairman of BOD as well:

    "Shareholders Get No XO From Icahn" (WSJ)
    online.wsj.com/article...

    "With Friends Like Carl Icahn…." (NYTimes)
    executivesuite.blogs.n.../

    "Shareholders Get No XO From Icahn" (WSJ)
    online.wsj.com/article...

    "The Kettle? The Pot Says He’s Black" (NYTimes)
    www.nytimes.com/2008/0...

    Carl Icahn's Latest Shuffle (Washington Post)
    www.washingtonpost.com...

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    On Oct 28 11:36 PM Gary A wrote:

    > I could be wrong, but Icahn is a bit of a maverick and is against
    > the big boys taking advantage of the prepackaged bond workout for
    > CITI. It appears that the bondholders will get a bad deal if the
    > big boys do this workout. Icahn taught me yesterday that in prepackaged
    > bankruptcy, the commercial banks in on it get a big cut out of the
    > company. That is just plain wrong. Let the companies go into regular
    > bankruptcy where the assets are protected from the investment banking
    > vultures.
    >
    > For that info I view Icahn as a pretty straight up guy, at least
    > regarding CITI.
    Oct 29 12:52 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Icahn Should Give Up Running Other People's Money  [View article]
    It is not about win or loss. It is about personal integrity.

    Simply put, Carl Icahn is a notorious hypocrite and one of the most shameless "investors" in the American financial history.
    Oct 28 22:08 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
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