http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704671904575194283935824908.html
You don’t even understand what an “equity stake” is do you.
No one even knows what happened to billions in the Bush 2008 bank bailout.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/banking/2008-12-22-bailout-money-where_N.htm
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/22/bailout.accountability/index.html
Two years later we know who got the cash but mostly not what they did with the funds.
(note the banks that paid the money back are mostly those who bought other banks, mortgage lenders and investment firms for pennies on the dollar using their TARP funds.)
http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/storysupplement/bankbailout/