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- GRAPEVINE, Page 17Welfare for Billionaires?
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- By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David Ellis
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- A report from the Resolution Trust Corporation is expected
- this month, and it figures to stoke congressional ardor to find
- scapegoats for the S&L mess. The report will examine
- transactions during 1988, when private investors, at the
- government's request, scooped up troubled S&Ls and then
- received whopping federal subsidies for doing so. In 94 cases,
- entrepreneurs like Ronald Perelman, owner of Revlon, and Texas
- billionaire Robert Bass wound up reaping, on average, $78 for
- each dollar they invested. Some who received this windfall
- have argued that their intervention was cheaper than allowing
- the bankrupt S&Ls to pile up losses. The House and Senate have
- scheduled hearings to question whether such generosity to the
- wealthy was really necessary.
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