what teams did george steinbrenner own?
New York Yankees
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 In 1988 , F. Ross Johnson was the President and CEO of RJR Nabisco , formed in 1985 by the merger of Nabisco Brands and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company , a leading producer of food products ( Shredded Wheat , Oreo cookies , Ritz crackers , Planters peanuts , Life Savers , Del Monte Fruit and Vegetables , and Snickers Chocolate ) as well as Winston , Camel and Salem cigarettes . In October 1988 , Johnson proposed a $ 17 billion ( $ 75 per share ) management buyout of the company with the financial backing of investment bank Shearson Lehman Hutton and its parent company , American Express . 

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 Desiring a fresh start , the owners replaced Stein with Gary Bettman in February 1993 . Formerly a senior vice president of the National Basketball Association , Bettman replaced the position of president with that of commissioner . He was given the task of selling the game to the American market , ending labor unrest , completing expansion plans , and modernizing the league . 

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 Corzine was appointed CEO and Chairman of MF Global , a multinational futures broker and bond dealer , in March 2010 . 

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 Corzine began his career in banking and finance . In the early and mid @-@ 1970s , he worked for Midwestern banks ( Continental @-@ Illinois National Bank in Chicago , Illinois and BancOhio National Bank in Columbus , Ohio ) during and after his Master of Business Administration ( MBA ) studies at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business . In 1975 he moved to New Jersey to work for Goldman Sachs . He became Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs and the leading advocate in the firm 's decision to go public . In 1999 , having lost a power struggle with Henry M. Paulson , Corzine left the firm . After his departure from Goldman Sachs , he earned what has been estimated to be $ 400 million during the 1999 initial public offering of the company . 

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 After the 1987 resignation of Jerome Kohlberg at age 61 ( he later founded his own private equity firm , Kohlberg & Co . ) , Henry Kravis succeeded him as senior partner . Under Kravis and Roberts , the firm was responsible for the 1988 leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco . RJR Nabisco proved to be not only the largest buyout in history to that time , at $ 25 billion ( $ 31 @.@ 1 billion , including assumed debt ) as well as a high @-@ water mark and sign of the end of the 1980s buyout boom . RJR — Nabisco , which would remain the largest buyout for the next 17 years , was chronicled in Barbarians at the Gate : The Fall of RJR Nabisco , and later made into a television movie starring James Garner . 
