A huge irony in all this is that the individual who organized the bankruptcy of Delphi--namely, Felix Rohatyn of Lazard investments--is a very big operator in the Democratic Party. He was Bill Clinton's ambassador to France after the death of Pamela Harriman, and is basically the "political godfather" of the so-called Democratic Leadership Council--the "new" Dems who spurn the old alliances with farm and labor, mesmerized by the chimera of the speculative "New Economy". Lazard was also at the center of the bankruptcies of Braniff, PanAm and Eastern Airlines, as well as Bethlehem and Weirton Steel. It provided the startup capital …
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