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Captain Boomerang

(194 posts)
Mon Dec 10, 2012, 05:10 PM Dec 2012

Enron with a Cream Filling. [View all]

(This is a heads up for someone wanting to do some digging.)

Hostess was already experiencing bankruptcy in 2009 when Ripplewood Holdings (A Private equity firm known for it's Vulture Capitalism tactics), acquired them.
Timothy C. Collins. CEO of Ripplewood Holdings & on the board of directors for Citigroup.
(Delegate for the last three years at the Bilderburg Group conference!)

Hostess did not have a finance department or treasury so a company named FTI Consulting provided them with with a few $$$-advisers.
(FTI Consulting involved in the bankruptcy cases of Enron in 2002)

"operating for at least six months or so with an outside consultant as their contract treasurer"
@ an hourly rate of $895.00 per hour per adviser + another $2,000,000 split among the advisors... http://dealbreaker.com/2012/01/if-only-twinkies-maker-had-had-someone-whose-job-it-was-to-remember-not-to-go-bankrupt/#more-63917

Hostess had assets of $980,000,000.00...
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/hostess-has-a-lot-of-debt-but-few-in-finance/

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Enron with a Cream Filling. [View all] Captain Boomerang Dec 2012 OP
sounds like a gigantic Bain Capital kind of deal. limpyhobbler Dec 2012 #1
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