This may trump automobile executives going to Washington, in separate private jets, to ask for corporate financial relief. Citigroup has purchased a jet:
“Beleaguered Citigroup is upgrading its mile-high club with a brand-new $50 million corporate jet – only this time, it’s the taxpayers who are getting screwed.”
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Tax-payers want accountability of where the bail-out funds are going. Is there any possible sensible explanation why, in this economic climate, fifty million dollars were spent on a new just? What is the return on that investment of public funds?
Catherine Forsythe