Software engineers.

Compliance analysts.

People with mortgages and families and children, who had come to work every day and done honest, skilled labor, and who were, through no fault of their own, days away from losing everything because the men at the top were thieves.

I would not allow that.

It would have been easier, and more profitable, to liquidate the assets and walk away with the tax write-off.

I insisted, instead, that we save the jobs.