Zell has been contacted by federal prosecutors but didn't offer any details about an ongoing investigation.
联邦公诉人已联系过泽尔,但并没有提供任何与调查进程有关的细节。
Financial engineering is central to the deal announced earlier this month to sell Tribune to Sam Zell, a real-estate tycoon.
对本月初宣布的将论坛报卖给房地产大亨山姆宰尔的交易来说,财务操作是重中之重。
When Sam Zell first visited the Los Angeles Times, he told employees of the paper he wasn't there to be "captain of the Titanic".
萨姆·泽尔首次来访《洛杉矶时报》时,他对时报的雇员们说他来到这里不想成为“泰坦尼克号的船长”!
To give Zell his due, the Tribune Company had plenty of problems when he took over, and shareholders like me owe him a debt of thanks.
对泽尔说句公道话,他接手时论坛公司的确存在很多问题,像我一样,各股东对他也有感恩之情。
Zell says Tribune Company will continue to operate as normally as possible under the supervision of the bankruptcy court and that he's not going anywhere.
泽尔称论坛公司会在破产法庭的监管下尽快照常经营,而他哪也不会去。
Sam Zell, one of the nation's biggest property owners, took control a year ago.
山姆·赛尔是美国最大业主之一,在一年之前接管了论坛公司。
Zell could have been more diplomatic in his critiques of the overlap and duplication at Tribune newspapers;
针对论坛报业系的众多报纸所存在的重叠和重复现象,泽尔本可以在其批评意见上更委婉一些;
Then Senator Sam Nunn and Governor Zell Miller of Georgia gave the campaign a huge boost when they endorsed me.
随后,乔治亚州参议员萨姆·纳恩和州长泽尔·米勒宣布支持我,大力地推了竞选活动一把。
New investors include Sam Zell, the Chicago financier, actress Hillary Swank and Herb Simon, the shopping mall magnate.
新投资者包括芝加哥金融家山姆·泽尔、演员希拉里·斯万克和购物中心大亨赫伯•西蒙。
Sam Zell blamed what he called a "perfect storm" of economic conditions including a credit crisis. But critics say he simply borrowed too much.
山姆·赛尔归咎于他所谓的经济“完美风暴”,包括信用危机。但是,批评人士指出,他只是借款太多。
But although Zell was making excuses for his own mismanagement, the perfect storm is real enough, and it is threatening to destroy newspapers as we know them.
然而,尽管塞尔是在为自己的经营不善找借口,完美风暴却是事实,而且这场风暴有可能毁掉我们熟知的报纸行业。
The company, which publishes the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and other big-city newspapers, was bought by Sam Zell, a property mogul, last year and is saddled with some $13 billion in debt.
这个发行《洛杉矶时报》和《芝加哥论坛报》等各大城市报纸的公司去年被富商山姆赛尔收购,现负债130 亿美元。
The company, which publishes the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and other big-city newspapers, was bought by Sam Zell, a property mogul, last year and is saddled with some $13 billion in debt.
这个发行《洛杉矶时报》和《芝加哥论坛报》等各大城市报纸的公司去年被富商山姆赛尔收购,现负债130 亿美元。
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