Corporate Raiders Try to Incite Shareholder Revolt at Williams

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Mini-MeOn Friday MDN reported that Enterprise Products Partners, a huge midstream company, wants to buy Williams (see Here We Go Again: Enterprise Products Wants to Buy Williams). Yes, we've seen this movie before. Last year Energy Transfer Equity's CEO Kelcy Warren tried the same thing--which ended in disaster earlier this year (see Dead as a Doornail: ETE Terminates Merger with Williams). History is repeating itself. The same agitators--corporate raiders--are once again pressuring Williams to accept the Enterprise offer as they tried to get Williams to accept ETE's earlier offer. Keith "Mini Me" Meister, a protege of Carl Icahn, is one of the corporate raiders pressuring Williams. Why? So Mini-Me can flip his large amount of Williams stock at a considerable profit (screwing employees of Williams in the process). Once again, here's why corporate raiders, like Keith Meister, are disgusting low-lifes in our book...

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