Alternative asset managers and the damage they inflict on New York communities:
It’s a real life Hunger Games. The financial elite cloister themselves away in gleaming taxpayer-subsidized towers, sitting on riches they earned by devastating economies in upstate New York and beyond. They earn special treatment from Governor Andrew Cuomo and his buddies in the State Senate by splashing their ill-gotten gains into political races. Governor Cuomo, always eager to rub elbows with his Wall Street buddies, earns invites to their pricey soirées.[1][2]
Average New Yorkers, meanwhile, are lucky not to lose their jobs in to a vulture hedge fund manager.
The hedge fund and private equity elite damage New York’s economy in many ways.
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There’s the taxes that they don’t pay—through the carried interest loophole, [3] or through captive offshore reinsurance companies, [4] the financial elite have always found ways to squirrel their cash away from the tax man.
There’s the influence-peddling, exploiting loopholes in the law to inundate their political water-carriers with seemingly endless campaign cash.
Even worse, these financial titans are making their money wrecking communities across the state.
In the last ten years, a small handful of hedge funds and private equity firms profited from strategies that gutted major New York employers and cost thousands of New Yorkers their jobs. Tens of thousands of New Yorkers – particularly Upstate — saw their pay, retirement, and benefits slashed as hedge funds gorged themselves on company cash.
| Company | Jobs lost | Managers involved | Regions impacted |
| Eastman Kodak | 1834 | Centerbridge, GSO Capital/Blackstone, Icahn | Rochester |
| Oneida | 78 | D.E. Shaw, Xerion Capital Partners | Sherrill (Oneida County) |
| WorldCom | 64 | Elliott Management | Rye (Westchester County) |
| Hostess | 573 | Ripplewood Management, Silver Point Capital | Various |
| Visteon Climate Control | 120 | Pardus Capital Management | Buffalo |
| BorgWarner | 158 | Partner Fund Management, GAMCO, Citadel, Criterion Capital | Ithaca |
| Penn Traffic | 4196 | Bay Harbour, CR Intrinsic/SAC Capital, King Street Capital | Statewide |
| Circor Flow Technologies | 51 | GAMCO, Gotham Asset Management, others | Walden (Orange County) |
| Protective Closures | 22 | BC Partners | Buffalo |
| NXP Semiconductor | 634 | KKR, Apax Partners, Silver Lake Capital, AlpInvest Partners | Hopewell Junction (Dutchess County) |
| Bausch & Lomb | 435 | Warburg Pincus | Rochester |
| Quandt’s Foodservice Distributors | 116 | Clayton Dubilier Rice, KKR | Amsterdam (Montgomery County) |
| Granite Broadcasting | 61 | Silver Point Capital | Syracuse |
| Delphi | 253 | Elliott Management, Silver Point Capital, Third Point | Lockport (Niagara County) |
| FiberMark | 55 | Silver Point Capital | Lowville (Lewis County) |
| TOTAL LOST: | 8,650 |
Rochester—child poverty soars while hedge fund managers raid area employers:
Scholars have noted that Rochester’s industrial decline has been accelerated by the area’s prior reliance on the “big three” local employers for a larger percentage of industrial employment. [5] The “big three” originally included Xerox, Bausch & Lomb, and Eastman Kodak.
Two of those three —Bausch & Lomb and Kodak— have been targets of hedge fund maneuvering that is likely the cause of job loss in Rochester. In addition to the 2,269 workers who lost their jobs in these attacks, tens of thousands of workers and retirees saw their pensions, health coverage, and wages sacrificed at the altar of hedge fund profits.
With Kodak alone, which suffered through two distressed debt plays by major hedge funds, an estimated 25,000 Rochester-area retirees had their pensions slashed.
The impact on Rochester has been nothing short of devastating. The loss of manufacturing jobs in Rochester caused a surge in unemployment and poverty. Unemployment in Rochester has more than doubled since 2000, and the crippling of Rochester’s major employers means that Rochester has largely been left out of post-recession recovery.
In 2013, while the rest of the country was recovering from the Great Recession, Rochester was languishing at recession-level unemployment rates.
From 2000 to 2013, Monroe County’s manufacturing base eroded at twice the rate of the United States overall, and easily outpaced the rest of the state: Who bears the brunt of this crisis? — Rochester’s children.
Average child poverty in Rochester from 2009-2013 was 50%, more than double the statewide average. [6] Rochester currently has the highest child poverty nationwide, among cities in similarly-sized metropolitan areas. [7] Even without controlling for city size, Rochester ranks fourth-highest in terms of child poverty nationwide. In the Rochester region, 6.4 emergency meals were served per resident, an increase of more than 100% since 2000. [8] For the 2012 school year, nearly ninety percent of students in Rochester Public Schools qualified for free and reduced lunch. [9]
Hedge fund managers spend millions to influence New York politics:
The very hedge fund managers who made fortunes in these 15 deals —destroying jobs, exploding corporate debt, cutting wages and pensions and dumping the resulting companies back on others— put a nice chunk of their winnings into political contributions, giving $442,727 to Governor Andrew Cuomo in the past three electoral cycles.
Paul Singer and the billion-dollar destruction of Delphi automotive
Paul Singer is reported to have earned more than $1.5 billion on his play at Delphi, the troubled autoparts manufacturer that was bailed out by the U.S. government in 2009. [10] Singer’s Elliott Management, along with Silver Point Capital and Dan Loeb’s Third Point, blocked an earlier sale proposed by the Treasury Department, which would have saved 15 of 29 Delphi plants and countless jobs. [11]
Holding Delphi at financial gunpoint, the hedge funds were able to extract additional compensation by shuttering factories across the country.
Dan Loeb, whose hedge fund also got in on the deal, boasted that “virtually no North American unionized labor” remained after the hedge funds rampaged through the company. In the final bankruptcy deal, Delphi’s 20,000 retirees lost up to 70% of their pensions, [12] an estimated 8,500 workers lost their jobs nationwide, [13] and all but four factories were shuttered. [14]
Here in New York, Delphi closed nearly all its plants, demanded tax write-offs from local and county governments, [15] laid off hundreds of employees, and subjected thousands to wage cuts, benefit cuts, temporary layoffs and “voluntary” buyouts and job-eliminations. [16]
Hedge fund and private equity managers won, While 8,650+ New Yorkers lost:
Below is a compendium of layoffs, plant closures, and pay/benefit clawbacks at companies who found themselves in the crosshairs of hedge funds or private equity managers.
Eastman Kodak
Jobs lost: 1834 (total)
First round: 688
Second round: 1,146 and retirement benefits cut for 25,000 in Rochester area (2012-2014)
Locations involved: various, see below
In December 2012, Eastman Kodak announced that it had secured an $830mn debtor-in-possession loan from hedge funds including Centerbridge Capital Partners and GSO Capital Partners. [17] These tiered loans provided punishing interest rates of between 9.5 and 13%. Post-bankruptcy, Kodak radically restructured itself in ways that helped bond holders but hurt upstate New Yorkers. Kodak sought to end retiree benefits in 2012, benefits that helped an estimated 25,000 Rochester-area retirees. [18] From 2012 through 2014, Kodak announced the layoffs of at least 1,149 workers in the Rochester area, a significant blow to an area desperately in need of economic stimulus.
Centerbridge Partners founder Mark Gallogly has given $10,000 to Andrew Cuomo, [19] and GSO Capital Partners is a subsidiary of Blackstone Group, which has numerous ties to Cuomo.
Cuomo recently hired former Blackstone Senior Managing Director William Mulrow as his top aide. [20] Cuomo’s Hurricane Sandy relief charity used the Housing Trust Fund Corporation (where William Murlow was one of two board members) to distribute $3.5 million to Blackstone-financed public housing. [21]
David Einhorn, whose Greenlight Capital hedge fund owned $13mn has given $50,000 in contributions to Cuomo. [22]
Eastman Kodak had an earlier brush-in with a hedge fund manager, Carl Icahn, who was rumored to have begun exploring a position in Kodak by the Summer of 1989. [23] Less than three months after the FTC permitted Icahn to acquire $500mn in Kodak stock, [24] Kodak announced massive layoffs, including 688 at their 1669 Lake Avenue plant in Rochester, NY. [25] News reports preceding the announcement indicated that Kodak management planned to meet with Icahn. [26]
| Address | Employees |
| 115 Canal Blvd, Rochester, NY 14650 | 77 |
| 1669 Lake Avenue, Rochester, NY 14650 | 1007 |
| 1999 Lake Avenue, Rochester NY 14650 | 322 |
| 2600 Manitou Road, Rochester, NY | 95 |
| 343 State Street, Rochester, NY 14650 | 337 |
Oneida
Jobs lost: 78
Locations involved: 102 East Seneca Street, Sherrill, NY 13461
D.E. Shaw and Xerion Capital Partners made an unsolicited offer for the company in 2006, which helped the company emerge from bankruptcy. [27] After the layoffs, D.E. Shaw and Xerion Capital stepped in, and Oneida shed an additional 78 jobs from 2007-2009. [28] D.E. Shaw founder David E. Shaw donated $10,000 to Cuomo on September 10, 2010.
Delphi
Jobs lost: 253
Locations involved: 4236 Ridge Lea Rd, Amherst, NY 14226 and 200 Upper Mountain Road, Lockport, NY 14094
While Delphi does not appear to have filed any WARN Act notices, news reports reveal that at least 253 workers at Delphi’s Lockport and Amherst, NY facilities have been permanently laid off in the previous ten years. In 2014, 10 workers “across western New York, which includes an Amherst facility and its Lockport technical center on Upper Mountain Road” were laid off. [29] In 2006, 182 hourly workers and 61 skilled trades people are on indefinite layoff at Delphi Thermal Systems in Lockport. [30] In addition to these layoffs, Delphi workers have seen wage cuts as large as 40% in 2007. [31] Work at Delphi’s Lockport facility has also been shifted to more contingent labor. In 2006, Delphi offered buyouts to 1,300 workers at Rockport, replacing outgoing employees with roughly 600 temps, making approximately half of what the outgoing employees made. [32] Delphi workers also saw their pensions consigned to the federally-backed Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., a shift that could see pensions reduced by a reported 70%. [33]
Paul Singer’s Elliott Management, along with Silver Point Capital, and Third Point Partners, bought up the distressed debt of Delphi, following their 2005 bankruptcy. [34] As Delphi went through bankruptcy, it faced pressure to cut worker wages and close factories, resulting in heavy wage and benefit cuts in the Niagara region.
WorldCom
Jobs lost: 64
Locations involved: 1 International Drive, Rye Brook, NY 10573
After WorldCom went bankrupt in 2002, [35] Elliott Management joined a host of distressed-debt buyers, who sought repayment for bonds issued by WorldCom subsidiary MCI Group. [36] The distressed-debt group was active in WorldCom’s Chapter 11 restructuring, which Worldcom emerged from in April 2003. [37] Shortly before the finalization of their restructuring, Worldcom filed a WARN Act notice for their Ryebrook, NY-based digital communications services office, announcing that the office was closing. [38] Job loss was estimated to effect 64 employees. Paul Singer, the head of Elliott Management, contributed $500,000 to New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany.
Hostess
Jobs lost: 573
Locations involved: see table below
Purchased by private equity firm Ripplewood Management and Silver Point Capital, which laid off 573 workers in New York in 2012, after unsuccessfully attempting to gut worker pay and benefits. [39] They layoffs, announced in October 2012, affected 20 sites across the state. [40] Ripplewood CEO Tim C. Collins has given $10,000 to Cuomo.
| Address | Employees |
| 60-06 37th Avenue, Woodside, NY 11377 | 33 |
| 310 Creekside Drive, Buffalo, NY 14227 | 38 |
| 9559 River Road, Marcy, NY 13403 | 10 |
| 168-23 Douglas Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11433 | 2 |
| 161 Troy Schenectady Road, Watervliet, NY 12189 | 26 |
| 5820 E Malloy Road, Syracuse, NY 13211 | 23 |
| 3645 West Henrietta, Rochester, NY 14623 | 26 |
| 89-18 Atlantic Avenue, Ozone Park, NY 11416 | 43 |
| 157 Bracken Road, Montgomery, NY 12549 | 36 |
| 569 Broadhollow Road, Melville, NY 11747 | 53 |
| 35-05 Conner Street, Bronx, NY 10475 | 53 |
| Plt 65, 168-23 Douglas Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11433 | 31 |
| 168-46 Douglas Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11433 | 44 |
| 1054 Harlem Road, Cheektowaga, NY 14227 | 3 |
| 2377 Harlem Road, Cheektowaga, NY 14225 | 1 |
| 131 Oriskany Blvd, Whitesboro, NY 13492 | 3 |
| 125 South Central Avenue, Elmsford, NY 10523 | 49 |
| 890 South Oyster Bay Road, Hicksville, NY 11801 | 57 |
| 3030 Veterans Memorial Highway, Bohemia, NY 11716 | 39 |
Visteon Climate Control Systems
Jobs lost: 120
Locations involved: 4900 North America Drive, West Seneca, NY 14227
Amid their battle with Pardus Capital Management for board seats, Visteon closed a division of their 200-employee West Seneca, NY plant. [41] One hundred and twenty UAW members lost their jobs in the April 2006 layoff, a major blow to this suburb of Buffalo, NY. [42] Former Silver Point partner Harry J. Wilson is a major contributor to Republicans in New York. Wilson gave $94,200 to the Republican State Committee in 2010, and has consistently donated to the New York Conservative Party.
BorgWarner
Jobs lost: 158
Locations involved: 800 Warren Road, Ithaca, NY 14850 and 3690 Luker Road, Cortland, NY 13045
While BorgWarner does not appear to have been the target of a specific activist campaign, BorgWarner became a hedge fund darling in 2013, [43] after buying back 1.5mn shares in the last quarter of the 2012 fiscal year. [44] Around the same time that the buyback was initiated, BorgWarner embarked on a year-long effort to trim jobs at their Courtland and Ithaca powdered metal plants. Local news announced that 158 jobs would be lost in the closure. [45] BorgWarner filed a number of amended WARN Act notices, [46] beginning four days after the company announced that it was considering share buybacks. [47] Mario Gabelli of GAMCO Investors, one of the hedge funds involved in the BorgWarner play, donated $50,000 to Cuomo in 2014.
Penn Traffic Co.
Jobs lost: 4,196
Locations involved: see table below
Penn Traffic, the troubled grocer that merged with Tops Markets in 2010, was the subject of significant hedge fund activity in 2007. Several distressed debt buyers purchased large stakes in the company after it emerged from it’s second bankruptcy, in a move that was widely seen as a merger play. During the period of hedge fund control, Penn shuttered it’s bakery and warehousing operations, spent the entirety of 2007 trying to merge with Tops Markets, and sputtering toward their third bankruptcy.
Bay Harbour Management made an aggressive play for board control in the spring of 2007, grabbing more than 23% of the company’s float [48] and securing two seats on Penn Traffic’s eight member board after threatening a proxy fight. [49] Additionally, Steve Cohen’s SAC Capital purchased 9.7% of Penn Traffic through a subsidiary of his now-defunct hedge fund, SAC Capital Partners. [50] While Penn Traffic was negotiating with Bay Harbour, they closed their profitable warehousing segment, [51] including their Jamestown warehouse, [52] the first step in a move to utilize third-party warehouse services. [53] 54 employees lost their jobs, and 49 of whom were UFCW members. [54]
Following the gain of board seats, Penn Traffic issued $10mn in preferred shares to Bay Harbour, CR Intrinsic (subsidy of SAC Capital), and King Street Capital. The stock was eligible for conversion at $16.12 per share one year after issuance (issued December 2007). At the time of conversion, Penn Traffic’s stock was worth approximately $0.50/share. [55]
In 2008 Penn Traffic also suffered a $4.8mn loss, stemming from a failed merger with Tops Markets—a supermarket chain that would eventually take over Penn Traffic in 2010. This loss likely contributed to Penn’s third bankruptcy. In 2009, Penn Traffic filed a WARN act notice announcing the loss of 4,142 jobs lost across more than fifty locations statewide. [56]
| Location | Jobs lost | Location | Jobs lost |
| 1200 State Fair Blvd, Syracuse, NY 13221 | 382 | 404 W. Morris St., Bath, NY 14810 | 39 |
| 3407 Walters Rd, Syracuse, NY 13221 | 285 | 119 West Seneca St., Manlius, NY 13104 | 117 |
| 181 Shop City Plaza, Syracuse, NY13206 | 69 | 212 Hancock St., Ithaca, NY 14851 | 32 |
| 620 Nottingham Road, Syracuse, NY 13210 | 87 | 8417 Oswego Road, Clay, NY 13027 | 77 |
| 217 Erie Blvd. West, Rome, NY 13440 | 74 | 18 Park Drive, Hornell, NY 14843 | 47 |
| 54 E. Main Street, Norwich, NY 13815 | 66 | 2309 N. Triphammer Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850 | 52 |
| 5 Commons Drive, T. 28, Cooperstown, NY 13326 | 47 | 184 Homer Avenue, Cortland, NY 13045 | 35 |
| 1963 Kingdom Plaza, Waterloo, NY 13165 | 79 | 201 Market St., Potsdam, NY 13676 | 63 |
| Seaway Shopping Center, Ogdensburg, NY 13669 | 60 | 9554 Harden Blvd/State Rt., Camden, NY 13316 | 56 |
| 22050 Seaway Shopping Center, Watertown, NY 13601 | 59 | 504 So. Franklin St., Watkins Glen., NY 14891 | 51 |
| 389 East Main Street, Gouverneur, NY 13642 | 67 | 3803 Brewerton Rd., N. Syracuse, NY 13212 | 102 |
| 71 Nelson Street, Cazenovia, NY 13035 | 75 | 5351 N. Burdick St., Fayetteville, NY 13066 | 140 |
| Rt. 5 & Oxbow Road, Canastota, NY 13032 | 68 | 321 Liberty St., Penn Yan, NY 14527 | 81 |
| 87 E. State Street, Sherrill, NY 13461 | 62 | 152 Harte Haven Plaza, Massena, NY 13662 | 59 |
| 5335 West Genesee Street, Camillus, NY 13031 | 101 | 110 South Work St., Falconer, NY 14733 | 53 |
| 4410 E. Genesee Street, DeWitt, NY 13214 | 49 | 51 Main St., Randolph Plaza, Randolph, NY 14772 | 36 |
| 1600 Cedar Street, Southtown, Elmira, NY | 76 | 150 Prospect St., Attica, NY 14011 | 50 |
| 1145 Rt. 17C, Oswego, NY 13827 | 44 | 20 Center St.,Frewsburg, NY 14738 | 19 |
| 111 E. Main Street, Canton, NY 13617 | 83 | 140 Central Ave., Silver Creek, NY 14136 | 39 |
| Rts. 81 & 13, 160 Clinton Ave., Cortland, NY 13045 | 65 | 64 South Erie Street, Mayville, NY 14757 | 40 |
| 2120 W. Genesee Street, Syracuse, NY 13219 | 75 | 5274 Main & Union, Williamsville, NY 14221 | 89 |
| 800 W. Genesee Street, Chittenango, NY 13037 | 58 | 7134 Rochester Rd., Lockport, NY 14094 | 71 |
| 3830 Rome Road, Pulaski, NY 13142 | 86 | 279 E. Fairmount Avenue, Lakewood, NY 14750 | 51 |
| 60 High Street, West Carthage, NY 13619 | 59 | 64 E. Washington St., Ellicottville, NY 14731 | 26 |
| 2265 Downer Street, Baldwinsville, NY 13027 | 101 | 738 Foote Avenue, Jamestown, NY 14701 | 89 |
| 315 Pine Tree Toad, Ithaca, NY 14850 | 77 | D&F Plaza, 1170 Central Avenue, Dunkirk, NY 14048 | 66 |
| 7301 South State Street, Lowville, NY 13367 | 63 | 121 East Main Street, Westfield, NY 14787 | 38 |
| 40 Fennell Street, Skaneateles, NY 13152 | 107 | 101 Jackson Avenue, W.E., Jamestown, NY | 54 |
Circor Flow Technologies
Jobs lost: 51
Locations involved: 150 Coldenham Road, Walden, NY 12586
Circor’s parent company became a hedge fund favorite in April 2013, four months prior to the announcement of 51 layoffs at Circor Flow Technologies’ Walden, NY stem and fluid control device plant. [57] The affected workers were members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. Just months after the last worker was laid off, [58] Circor announced a $75mn share repurchase program. [59] Hedge fund managers bullish on Circor during the layoffs included Gotham Asset Management, whose founder Joel Greenblatt has given $50,000 to Andrew Cuomo (his wife, Julia, gave an additional $25,000) and an additional $250,000 to New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany. Another hedge fund involved in the play, Mario Gabelli of GAMCO Investors, donated $50,000 to Cuomo in 2014.
Protective Closures
Jobs lost: 22
Location involved: 2150 Elmwood Ave, North Buffalo, NY
Protective Closures laid-off 22 employees at their Elmwood Avenue plant in North Buffalo in the summer of 2001. [60] At the time of the layoffs, Protective Closures was a subsidiary of Mark IV, itself owned by private equity firm BC Partners. [61] BC Partners former senior partner [62] James Rubin was tapped by Cuomo to be the director for the NY Rising Community Reconstruction program. [63]
NXP Semiconductor
Jobs lost: 634
Locations involved: Hudson Valley Research Park, 2070 Rt 52, Hopewell Junction, NY 12533
NXP Semiconductor was spun out of Philips Electronics in 2006, and purchased by a group of private equity managers including Silver Lake Capital, Bain Capital, Apax Partners, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, and AlpInvest Partners NP. [64] NXP suffered two rounds of layoffs at their Hopwell Junction plant, which had been in continuous operation as a semiconductor facility since the 1980s. [65] The first layoffs in 2009 saw twelve employees lose their jobs, with an estimated 500 to follow that summer. [66] The final tally of the second round of layoffs was 622. [67]
KKR founder Henry Kravis is the chair of the Partnership for New York City, [68] which has donated at least $3mn to a dark money organization supporting Cuomo. [69]
Bausch & Lomb
Jobs Lost: 435
Locations involved: 1400 N. Goodman Street, Rochester, NY 14609 and One Bausch and & Lomb Place, Rochester, NY 14604
Bausch & Lomb was acquired from Warburg Pincus by Valeant Pharmaceuticals, who paid $4.5bn in cash and spent $4.2bn paying off debt. Bausch was taken private by Warburg Pincus in 2007 for $4.5bn. [70] According to reporting on TheStreet.com, Bausch & Lomb’s 2007 buyout was largely self-financed with debt. [71] According to the S-1 statement filed during the Valeant acquisition, interest expenses outstripped operating income in every year of financial data provided. [72] Bausch & Lomb’s workforce reductions came in 2013, after the Valeant acquisition. [73] The 435 jobs lost at two Rochester, NY may have been prevented if the company had not been overloaded with debt.
Warburg Pincus senior advisor William Janeway contributed $10,000 to Cuomo in May of 2010.
Quandt’s Foodservice Distributors, Inc.
Jobs lost: 116
Locations involved: 105 Quist Road, Amsterdam, NY 12010
Quandt’s Foodservice Distributors is currently owned by Sysco. When the layoffs were announced, Quandt was owned by U.S. Food Service, itself a subsidiary of an entity controlled by private equity firms Clayton Dubilier and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. [74] The layoffs were originally announced in 2013, and occurred through April 2014. [75] Clayton Dubilier partner Thomas Franco donated $1,000 to Cuomo in 2009.
WKBW-TV Channel 7/Granite Broadcasting
Jobs lost: 61
Locations involved: 980 James Street, Syracuse, NY 13203
Not even upstate media is insulated from the job destroying affects of hedge funds. Six employees– five of them union members– were laid off from Channel 7 in December 2010. [76] Channel 7 is owned by Silver Point Capital, a hedge fund based in Greenwich, CT. [77] Granite Broadcasting had previously laid off 55 workers in Syracuse, during the summer of 2009. [78] Silver Point Capital donated $5,000 to the Republican Campaign Committee of New York in 2012. [79]
FiberMark
Jobs lost: 55
Locations involved: 5492 Bostwick St, Lowville, NY 13367
Thirty workers were laid off in 2009, at this Lowville, NY paper plant. [80] An additional 25 were laid off in seasonal job cuts in 2011. [81] FiberMark was run by Silver Point Capital, which restructured the firm by drastically cutting employee salaries. [82] Silver Point exited the deal by selling FiberMark to American Securities, a private equity firm that cut back staff at FiberMark. According to a FiberMark employee, whose pay was slashed from $17.50/hour to $12.33, $9mn in wages and benefits were trimmed during the restructuring. [83] Silver Point Capital donated $5,000 to the Republican Campaign Committee of New York in 2012. [84]
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[45] http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/03/cortlandville_plant_to_close_w.html
[46] See http://labor.ny.gov/app/warn/details.asp?id=3952 for first announcement. This warn was amended seven times.
[47] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/14/us-borgwarner-results-idUSBRE91D17S20130214
[48] http://supermarketnews.com/retail-amp-financial/bay-harbour-penn-traffic-spar-over-board-seat
[49] http://www.themiddlemarket.com/mar/20071028/47026-1.html
[50] http://www.themiddlemarket.com/mar/20071028/47026-1.html
[51] http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/77155/000114420409021711/v146622_10k.htm
[52] http://labor.ny.gov/app/warn/details.asp?id=1499
[53] http://www.smartbrief.com/10/02/08/cs-wholesale-grocers-supply-penn-traffic
[54] http://labor.ny.gov/app/warn/details.asp?id=1499
[55] http://www.valueinvestorsclub.com/value2/Idea/ViewIdea/3559
[56] http://labor.ny.gov/app/warn/details.asp?id=2484
[57] http://labor.ny.gov/app/warn/details.asp?id=4707
[58] http://labor.ny.gov/app/warn/details.asp?id=4750
[59] http://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/14/12/b5090888/circor-international-announces-75-million-share-repurchase-program
[60] http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-22363011.html
[61] ‘Protective Closures Lays Off 22 Employees,’ June 14, 2001 by Matt Glynn for The Buffalo News.
[62] https://www.linkedin.com/pub/james-rubin/9/3b4/15b
[63] http://stormrecovery.ny.gov/staff
[64] http://www.apax.com/news/apax-news/2006/august/bain-capital-and-apax-partners-join-private-equity-consortium-purchasing-majority-stake-in-philips-semiconductor-unit/
[65] http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20090625/BUSINESS01/906250337
[66] http://labor.ny.gov/app/warn/details.asp?id=1950
[67] http://labor.ny.gov/app/warn/details.asp?id=2189
[68] http://pfnyc.org/our-investments/board-of-directors/
[69] http://public-accountability.org/wp-content/uploads/csny2012.pdf
[70] http://www.fiercebiotech.com/press-releases/press-release-warburg-pincus-ventures-completes-acquisition-bausch-lomb-4-5-billion
[71] http://www.thestreet.com/story/11934925/1/bausch-lomb-success-less-than-meets-the-eye.html
[72] http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1416436/000119312513122167/d502777ds1.htm
[73] http://labor.ny.gov/app/warn/details.asp?id=4341
[74] http://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Sysco-buys-US-Foods-5049380.php
[75] http://labor.ny.gov/app/warn/details.asp?id=4523
[76] http://cloud-computing.tmcnet.com/news/2010/12/06/5178504.htm
[77] “Six workers lose jobs at Channel 7,” by Stephen T. Watson for The Buffalo News, December 7, 2010
[78] http://labor.ny.gov/app/warn/details.asp?id=2108
[79] http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000037584&cycle=2012
[80] http://cloud-computing.tmcnet.com/news/2009/01/21/3930670.htm
[81] http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20111101/NEWS04/711019865/
[82] http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/10/state_comptroller_dinapoli_cam.html
[83] http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/10/state_comptroller_dinapoli_cam.html
[84] http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000037584&cycle=2012