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On the recordFebruary 24, 2010
You left the equity intact, all of the debt continued to be repaid at 100 cents on the dollar; a far better deal to have been an investor in GMAC than to have been an investor in GM.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren contrasts the treatment of GMAC with that of GM in bankruptcy.

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