Headline: Road Track, 6/12/2023
Embattled Lordstown Motors, born in political chicanery, riven by executive corruption, a Department of Justice investigation and a prototype flambé, finally warned of an impending bankruptcy. Taiwan’s Foxconn, best known for assembling iPhones, may walk away from a $170 million deal to build the Lordstown Endurance. When Foxconn — fresh from bamboozling the state of Wisconsin over a massive LCD factory and 13,000 jobs that never materialized — has to put up its own money to maintain an auto-building illusion, the truth will out. After pissing away a few hundred million dollars, here’s what Lordstown has to show for it: A grand total of 31 painfully uncompetitive electric trucks. For five years, the company has cynically played Ohio and hopeful, would-be autoworkers in the struggling Mahoning Valley. [emphasis added]
According to Merriam-Webster, the first known use of 'bamboozle', as in to deceive by underhanded methods:DUPE, HOODWINK, occurred in 1703.
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