KKR took over #DollarGeneral in 2007 and embarked on a nationwide expansion campaign, using abusive preferential distributor contracts and targeting community-owned grocers to trap poor people into buying the most heavily processed, least nutritious, most profitable food available:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/27/walmarts-jackals/#cheater-sizes
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94.5% of the #PaycheckProtectionProgram - designed to help small businesses keep their workers payrolled during lockdown - went to giant businesses, fraudulently siphoned off by companies like Longview Power, 40% owned by KKR:
https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/20/great-danes/#ppp
KKR also helped engineer a loophole in the Trump tax cuts, convincing #JustinMuzinich to carve out taxes for #CCorporations, which let KKR save *billions* in taxes:
https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/02/broken-windows/#Justin-Muzinich
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