For KKR, people with disabilities and patients make great victims - disempowered and atomized, unable to fight back. No surprise, then, that so many of KKR's scams target poor people - another group that struggles to get justice when wronged.
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It's not just emergency rooms. KKR bought and looted homes for people with disabilities, slashed wages, cut staff, and then feigned surprise at the deaths, abuse and misery that followed:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kendalltaggart/kkr-brightspring-disability-private-equity-abuse
Workers' wages went down to $8/hour, and they were given *36 hour shifts*, and then KKR threatened to have any worker who walked off the job *criminally charged* with patient abandonment:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/02/plunderers/#farben
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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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