CIT's move will wipe out current holders of its common and preferred stock, likely meaning the U.S. government will lose the $2.3 billion it sunk into CIT last year to prop up the ailing company.
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Originally published at https://warintel.blogspot.com/2009/11/cit-files-bankruptcy-tax-payers-to.html on November 2, 2009.