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The comment above completely fails to address the parent's claim. The parent claimed outright corruption in some cases, and cited an article which extensively documents such outright corruption.

"Wrong" is applicable to this reply rather than the original post.

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Again, wrong. The original post completely fails in its argumentation. As I stated above the investment banks providing the loans are not 'perpetual suckers'. They know what they are doing. If PE financing were such a bad game nobody would provide loans in the first place. An industry achieving good returns for decades does simply not need to bribe capital providers. Bribing high ranking decision making bankers is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard, this is not an governmental official. Claiming overall corruption as a fact and linking to one article (which isn't even about the capital providers for PE firms - the overall point of the original post) is simply irrelevant.

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