Originally Posted by
budwom
We have so many good ideas! Here's another one, former Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Duke, Dave Rubenstein could arrange a leveraged buyout via his Carlyle Group...probably get a big big loan from Deutsch Bank, just about anybody can...
Irrelevant Puerto Rico anecdote: when I met my wife in the 1980s, she had a roommate whose family owned PR's largest rum distillery, Don Q. The roommate looked to be, like my wife, a typical tourist as she had been adopted from Scandinavia, and had bright blond hair and blue eyes. They went on vacation to PR one winter and got hassled by the cops for no apparent reason, but when the roommate showed her license and revealed her lineage, some world class bowing and scraping took place, nice police escort, abundant apologies. I think we need to look her up again...