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by whateverman23 1018 days ago
> Perhaps, but the posted does not say that...

It doesn't say the government is profiting either. You just made that up.

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Well, that piece is pretty easy to conclude. They acquired it for essentially nothing.
You are missing a very obvious piece of the puzzle here: assets seized by the government during bankruptcy get used to offset liabilities of the bankrupt company. This doesn't need to be explicitly said; it wouldn't make sense for it to work any other way.
> Well, that piece is pretty easy to conclude.

It's also an incorrect conclusion.