
Citigroup Buying up $10 Billion Worth of Toll Roads with Bailout Money
Alex James
None of the bailout money is going to help those "they said" it was intended
for. Now citigroup is arrogantly buying up foreign owned toll roads---just
like GM saying they would spend $billions in Brazil on their plants there
with their bailout money.
Out future is being raped by the House and Senate.
I've tried to inform people in several articles I've written that the Wall
Street of the good ole USA is taking its last feeble gasps ---looting the
vaults before taking off ( ala Titanic) for greener pastures. If you Google
Dubai --you will see the futuristic city of FINANCE that has been under
construction for the past decade + ---using slave labor of course from third
world countries. Note how ole Cheney relocated Halliburton there a few years
back (tax free mind you) as have numerous American/ European corporations -
oil barons etc (Bill Gates). I personally have NO doubt at all that old Ken
Lay ( dead of a heart attack my ass) is sitting pretty on one of those
private islands . NO - you or I would NOT be permitted to live in Dubai -
etc.....only the ultra wealthy. They have the best of schools / hospitals
etc and ZERO crime. Old Bill Clinton is cleaning up in these regions
(heavily invested) - he is now a multi millionaire ( and you wondered why
people go into politics?). He gets $430,000 per one hour of blabbing - over
there. Hillary's pre- arranged agreement to be (in the spotlight) Sec of
State will NOT interfere with his continual money making. JM
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/26/2613.asp
Bailed-Out Bank Goes on Toll Road Buying Binge
Bailed out Citigroup fund spends $10 billion buying 44 foreign toll roads.
Citi toll
road
Just one week after receiving a pledge of $306 billion in support from US
taxpayers, Citigroup announced the intended $10 billion acquisition of a
debt-laden Spanish toll road group. Citi Infrastructure Partners will hand
over $3.6 billion in cash and assume $6.3 billion in debt from Sacyr
Vallehermoso, the parent company of the Intinere Infraestructuras toll road
group. Itinere operates 32 toll roads in Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Portugal
and Spain and Ireland. Another twelve concessions are under construction.
Sacyr today issued a statement to Spanish investors noting that the company
succeeded in offloading 37 percent of its total debt to the US firm.
"With this transaction, the group reaps the value that Itinere accumulated
for its mature concession assets and strengthens its financial situation by
considerably reducing its indebtedness," the statement explained.
On November 23, the US Treasury announced that it had invested $20 billion
in US taxpayer funds in Citigroup in addition to "protection against the
possibility of unusually large losses" on $306 billion in bad debt the
company had acquired primarily in commercial and residential real estate
markets. Armed with the new taxpayer capital, Citigroup believes its
purchase of the toll roads will hold long-term value. In the immediate term,
Citigroup will sell off Itinere's stakes in five Spanish and Chilean toll
roads to Spanish tolling giant Abertis, allowing that company to assume full
ownership of its tolling assets. The deal is valued at $786 million.
Other analysts, including Fitch Ratings, view tolling as a risky investment
as toll road volumes have plummeted in response to the recent spikes in
gasoline prices and the global economic slowdown. In August, Fitch issued a
warning that its outlook on tolling
<http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/25/2511.asp> had changed to "negative,"
reflecting a dim view of the creditworthiness of the long-term transactions.
In October, Citigroup and Abertis gave up on their joint bid to collect
tolls on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The consortium spent millions
bankrolling a <http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/24/2465.asp> slick public
relations campaign that ultimately failed to sway public opinion on the
wisdom of the 75-year proposal.
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