Kinder and Morgan set their firm up as a master limited partnership, an obscure structure that had one key advantage: no corporate income taxes.

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The holding company for failed Washington Mutual , seized by the U.S. government and now in bankruptcy court, disclosed this week that it sold limited partnership stakes in three venture capital funds run by FTV Capital, a San Francisco venture capital firm.

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