Judge Clears Sale of Chrysler to Fiat

NY Times-

A federal judge on Sunday night cleared a path for Chrysler to exit bankruptcy by approving a sale of most of the carmaker’s assets to a new entity to be run by Fiat of Italy.

Judge Arthur J. Gonzalez of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York approved the government-backed plan after three days of marathon hearings on the proposal. On Friday, testimony and arguments in federal bankruptcy court in Manhattan lasted nearly 12 hours.

With the approval, a newly reorganized Chrysler could come out of bankruptcy as early as this week, about a month after seeking protection, an extraordinarily short amount of time for a reorganization.

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