As disgusting as this is, It doesn’t come as a surprise to me. For me, all of this has been about EL getting a personal benefit and saving himself and never about saving the company, peoples jobs, families. A lot has been done at Sears in the past years that is, to put it like this, on the verge of legality, so from EL perspective it was logical to demand some sort of legal immunity as a condition for his bid. What will happen time will tell, but this is just some more proof ( in case that what we've seen already wasn't enough) that no one has the workers interest in mind and that this is just about the leaders walking out with the money.
https://www.post-gazette.com/business/legal/2018/12/08/Eddie-Lampert-s-Sears-bid-comes-with-a-key-demand-Legal-shelter/stories/201812080023