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bduerst
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WeWork’s CEO Makes Millions as Landlord to WeWork
I think their point isn't about the recent bankruptcy, but that he bought out controlling shares of Sears, sold himself the retail property of Sears and KMart, and then started charging rent to the public company.
jhall1468
on Jan 16, 2019
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Right, and he didn't approve any of those real estate deals. They weren't sweetheart deals.
wavefunction
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Personally you could never convince me that this sort of Sears situation wasn't engineered by people following exacting legal advice.
scott_s
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For more on that:
https://prospect.org/article/how-sears-was-gutted-its-own-ce...
unwabuisi
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