*Verizon received a taxpayer bailout in 2008-09.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/01/AR2010120106870.html Washington Post; Fed aid in financial crisis went beyond U.S. banks to industry, foreign firms]</ref> | *Verizon received a taxpayer bailout in 2008-09.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/01/AR2010120106870.html Washington Post; Fed aid in financial crisis went beyond U.S. banks to industry, foreign firms]</ref> |