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We are dedicated to the public exposure of this one time corporate giant. Enron was George W. Bush's largest political career contributor. No company in America was closer to George W. Bush than Enron and its CEO Kenneth Lay. Bush's nickname for Lay is "Kenny Boy". Kenny Boy's ties to the Bush family run deep. Enron's powerful influence is everywhere they have contributed money to 71 sitting Senators. Since 1989, Enron has made a whopping $5.8 million in campaign donations, 73 percent to Republicans and 27 percent to Democrats.

The Center for Public Integrity a nonpartisan research and investigative reporting organization said Enron, its employees and directors have given $623,000 to Bush from 1993 to November 2001. Campaign finance reform is the only way to stop corporations like Enron from owning those in Washington.

Enron the once a mighty energy trader unraveled after it disclosed losses from partnerships kept off its balance sheet. They hid the truth while the executives cashed in the stock and made millions. Enron's bankruptcy and shenanigans left employees holding worthless stocks and retirement funds. Meanwhile top Enron executives earned over 600 million from stock sales in last 4 years. Enron's auditing firm, whose work is under investigation by federal regulators, disclosed that its employees had destroyed a ``significant'' number of documents related to Enron. Justice department investigations are looking at if Enron defrauded investors, including 401(k) plan holders, by concealing vital information about its finances. Lawyers representing Enron shareholders filed a class action suit last month claiming that between Oct. 19, 1998 and Nov. 27, 2001, the 29 current and former company officials traded 17 million shares of Enron stock worth $1.1 billion

The Bush Administration has several major connections with Enron.

  • Karl Rove Bush's top political strategist sold between $100,000 and $250,000 worth of Enron stock in 2001 after being accused of conflict of interest.
  • Thomas White Jr. Secretary of the Army. Was a former top Enron executive, he sold shares worth at least $50 million before Enron's shares plummeted.
  • Robert B. Zoellick Trade Representative He worked for Enron immediately before joining the administration.
  • Lawrence B. Lindsey Bush's National Economic Council chief. He was paid $50,000 by Enron in 2000 for consulting work.
  • John Ashcroft U.S. Attorney General He recused himself from the Justice Dept. probe of Enron because Enron was a major contributor to his failed Senate campaign.
  • Marc F. Racicot He was recently appointed by Bush to serve as Republican National Committee chairman is a former Enron lobbyist.
  • Paul O'Neill Treasury Secretary. Lay phoned him to warn of Enron's pending bankruptcy. The White House said no government action followed the call.
  • Don Evans Commerce Secretary. Lay phoned him before Enron's collapse to warn that Enron might default on its bonds. The White House said no government action followed the call.
  • Tom Ridge Bush's Director of Homeland Security. In 1997, when Ridge was Pennsylvania's governor, then-Texas governor Bush called on behalf of Lay to help Enron break into Pennsylvania's tightly regulated electricity market.
  • Curtis Hebert Jr. Former Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission He told the New York Times that Lay was using his sway with Bush to influence FERC decisions. Hebert resigned in 2001, and the position was filled with Texan Pat Wood III, a friend of Bush and Lay.
  • At least 15 high-ranking Bush administration officials owned Enron stock last year.

Enron executives met with the Bush administration just one day before the administration determined not to assist California in its Enron-created energy crisis. The administration did not impose price caps and allowed Enron to further gouge California energy consumers potentially bankrupting California energy providers and endangered the stability of the government of California.

We know that Enron Corp. officials had six meetings with Vice President Dick Cheney and his aides over an eight-month period to discuss the nation's energy policy. Rep. Henry Waxman, D.-Calif., has been pressing Cheney to detail his contacts with the troubled company. "There is a very intimate connection between Enron and the Bush administration. How could they not have known what was happening?" Waxman said. "I think we need to find out what people in the administration knew, many of whom used to work for Enron. We ought to find out whether they ignored warning signs." "The White House had knowledge that Enron was likely to collapse but did nothing to try to protect innocent employees and shareholders who ultimately lost their life savings,'' he said in a statement. ``I am deeply troubled that the White House stood by and let this happen to thousands of families.''
1-26-02 Poll Finds Enron's Taint Clings More to G.O.P. Than Democrats. Their suspicions are growing that the Bush administration is hiding something or lying about its own dealings with the Enron Corporation before the company filed for bankruptcy protection, the latest New York Times/ CBS News Poll shows.
1-26-02 GAO to take legal action. The head of the General Accounting Office conducting a congressional inquiry into the Bush administration's energy proposals said yesterday he would sue the White House next week if the administration does not comply with his demands, in what would be the first legal action of its kind between the legislative and executive branches of government
1-26-02 US energy policy helped Enron's India plans. The White House apparently added a last-minute provision to the Bush administration's energy policy last spring that was helpful to Enron, a Democratic congressman said.(Times of India)
1-26-02 Death ruled suicide. The death of former Enron executive John Clifford Baxter was officially ruled a suicide today by the Harris County Medical Examiner's office.
1-26-02 White House helped Enron in India The White House apparently changed a draft energy proposal circulated by the State Department last year to add a provision aimed at helping energy-trader Enron Corp. in India
1-25-02 Some officials at Arthur Andersen were worried about a "heightened risk" of fraud in Enron's books a week before the energy company shocked stockholders with huge losses, an auditor's memo from last October shows. The e-mail by Andersen auditor Mark Zajac warned that a computer analysis of Enron's financial activities in the third quarter of last year indicated "a red alert: a heightened risk of financial statement fraud," according to investigators.
1-25-02 Vice President Dick Cheney's office again refused this week to turn over details of how the White House formulated its energy policy - including bankrupt Enron Corp.'s involvement - despite increased pressure from Congress.
1-25-02 Many May Be Surprised to Be Enron Investors - In the last year, more than 50 mutual funds and insurance companies, including some of the largest and best known in America, invested in a trust created by Enron in 1997 to finance the operations of several of the energy company's shadowy partnerships.
1-25-02 NSC Aided Enron's Efforts -The White House's National Security Council is the president's nerve center for international crises and strategy. For a moment last year, it also acted as a sort of concierge service for Enron Chairman Kenneth L. Lay and India's national security adviser, Brajesh Mishra.
1-17-02 Andersen fires lead auditor in Enron case. Three others are being disciplined as the probe continues.
1-15-02 A Swiss investment bank won't pay anything to acquire Enron Corp.'s energy trading business, won't assume any of the troubled company's debts and will share a third of its profits with Enron and its creditors
1-15-02 New York Stock Exchange Suspends Enron Trading
1-14-02 Top Enron executives "cooked the books" as the energy corporation neared financial collapse, an attorney for shareholders charged Monday
1-14-02 As Enron Corp.'s collapse has mushroomed into a major political issue, pressure appears to be growing on Vice President Dick Cheney to fully disclose the Houston company's role in developing President Bush's energy plan last spring.
1-13-02 Not long ago, Enron Corp.'s name was part of the lexicon of corporate and political power. The company's contacts and influence in the White House and Congress bred envy among competitors. Enron was a driving force behind a radical shift in the U.S. energy policy, and its fortune seemed guaranteed for years. But in a matter of weeks, Enron has been transformed into shorthand for a corporate scandal, one that has touched politicians and regulators in Washington, accountants and executives on Wall Street, and employees and other shareholders who lost tens of billions of dollars as the company tumbled into bankruptcy protection.
1-15-02 The growing scandal over the collapse of Enron Corp. deepened on Tuesday, with accounting firm Andersen saying its lead partner for auditing the energy trader had ordered documents destroyed after learning federal regulators wanted to see them.
1-14-02 President Bush's chief of staff was told last fall of Enron Corp.'s request for government help.
1-14-02 Enron, PG&E similar tales - The correlation is very simple: Corporations like PG&E and Enron want to take an essential commodity and gouge us with it.
1-14-02 GOP Enron Plan: Shift the Blame - With the political furor over the collapse of Enron Corp. gaining momentum, Republicans on Capitol Hill are already preparing their strategy for countering Democratic attacks. It's a strategy that sounds hauntingly familiar to veterans of the political wars of the late 1990s: Blame it on Bill Clinton and the Democrats.
1-13-02 Just four days before Enron disclosed a stunning $618 million loss for the third quarter—its first public disclosure of its financial woes—workers who audited the company's books for Arthur Andersen, the big accounting firm, received an extraordinary instruction from one of the company's lawyers. Congressional investigators tell Time that the Oct. 12 memo directed workers to destroy all audit material, except for the most basic "work papers." And that's what they did, over a period of several weeks. As a result, FBI investigators, congressional probers and workers suing the company for lost retirement savings will be denied thousands of e-mails and other electronic and paper files that could have helped illuminate the actions and motivations of Enron executives involved in what now is the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history.
1-13-02 Economic Collapse, Political Fallout - The story on Oniel and Evans getting calls from Lay but telling no one sure sounds a tad fishy. Not even a - hey boss your money tree is about to be cut down.
1-12-02 Bush lies- In distancing himself from Enron, President Bush said that CEO Kenneth Lay "was a supporter" of Democrat Ann Richards in his first race for Texas governor in 1994. But records and interviews with people involved in the Richards campaign show that he was a far bigger Bush supporter. Bush got three times more money.
1-12-02 Hidden Numbers Crushed Enron
'Partnerships' Shielded $600 Million Debt
1-11-02 Efforts by energy giant Enron Corp. to seek help as it collapsed included multiple contacts with the Bush administration and a call on the company's behalf by former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, the Treasury Department said Friday.
1-12-02 The Justice Department named a career federal prosecutor specializing in fraud and other white-collar crimes to lead the investigation into the collapse of Enron Corporation as the White House revealed more attempts by Enron executives to seek help for the failing company from the Bush administration.
1-12-02 Congressional investigators asked the big accounting firm Arthur Andersen yesterday for more information about its destruction of documents related to energy trader Enron Corp., including internal correspondence during the period when records were being destroyed.
1-11-02 At least 15 high-ranking Bush administration officials owned Enron stock last year, and more than 250 members of Congress received political contributions from the now-bankrupt energy company, according to two government watchdog groups
1-11-02 Transformed in just one day from the nation's biggest bankruptcy to a major political controversy, some of the players in the Enron affair are already giving conflicting versions of who said what to whom
In addition to being one of the single largest financial backers of George W. Bush's political career, Ken Lay can count himself among the president's closest friends.
The rise and fall of Enron is an instant classic in the annals of capitalism because, in one calamitous stroke, it wipes out so many sanctified illusions that rule in the magic marketplace.
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Enron executives who dumped stock were heavy donors to Bush. Twenty-four top executives and board members at Enron Corp. contributed nearly $800,000 to national political parties, President Bush, members of Congress, and others overseeing investigations of the company for possible securities fraud, according to a Center for Public Integrity investigation. In addition, Enron made $1.9 million in soft money contributions during the same 1999-2001 period.
Andersen's revelation that it destroyed documents relating to its audit of Enron Corp. has cast doubt on the credibility of the Big Five accounting firm and raises questions of legal liability.
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Texas Attorney General John Cornyn, who has accepted $193,000 in campaign contributions from Enron and its executives since 1997, withdrew Friday 1-10-02 from participating in his office's investigation into the bankrupt energy company.
More than 250 members of Congress - Democrats as well as Republicans - received political contributions from now-bankrupt Enron and at least 15 high-ranking Bush administration officials owned stock in the energy company last year, according to two government watchdog groups.
So now we know why the White House has spent the better part of a year fending off congressional efforts to find out who Vice President Cheney met with for input on his Energy Task Force. Turns out the VP and his staff had at least six meetings with representatives from Enron -- including one with Chairman Kenneth Lay -- the last of which occurred just six days before the company revealed that it had vastly overstated its earnings, signaling the beginning of the end for the energy giant.
Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin Treasury secretary under President Clinton joined Enron Corp. executives in a futile effort to persuade the Bush administration to help keep the company from plunging into bankruptcy, government officials said Friday 1-10-02.
Texas politicians, long the biggest beneficiaries of Enron Corp.'s prodigious campaign spending, are now facing the downside of the fallen corporation's political largess. Those who pocketed Enron political contributions in the past include lawmakers now seated on committees investigating the energy giant's dramatic fall, and others running for office in contested races. Throughout Washington, the pervasiveness of Enron's campaign spending is proving problematic for those now wanting to distance themselves from the escalating scandal.
While investigators are focusing on how much money investors and employees lost in Enron Corp.'s collapse, some shareholders and lawmakers are now setting their sights on another target: the millions that Enron insiders received by selling their shares near the top of the market.
For reasons that may turn out to be too obvious, the Enron Corp. of Houston decided last year to switch administrators for its company 401(k) retirement plan. The administrator is a financial management company that kept the books, invested employees' money in various mutual funds, sent out quarterly statements, received those weekly or biweekly contributions from the employees' payroll, and generally tended the retirement savings of Enron's 20,000 employees, who collectively held about $1 billion worth of company stock.
1-14-02 Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, said today that it has filed lawsuits against Bush Administration agencies for their failure to provide documents under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) concerning the bourgeoning Enron scandal
1-14-02 The Enron scandal, which has laid waste to thousands of employees' life savings and revealed questionable ties to the Bush White House and members of Congress, spotlights a conflict of interest in government and shouts the need for campaign finance reform.
Enron Collapse Entangles Bush Administration
Enron employees, whose retirement plans vanished amid the debris of the energy giant's bankruptcy, are quietly pointing federal investigators toward the man they think most responsible for the fiasco: former Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling.
Florida's pension fund investment in Enron Corp.has cost the state more than $300 million, but many top politicians received money from the Texas-based energy giant. Enron officials doled out more than $200,000 in campaign contributions, including the maximum allowable $500, to scores of the state's elected officials in Washington and Tallahassee.
1-15-02 Raising further questions about Enron CEO Kenneth Lay's knowledge of his company's inner workings, a letter from a company employee to CEO Kenneth Lay in August, made public today, expresses concern that the energy trading company "will implode in a wave of accounting scandals."
1-15-02 Kenneth L. Lay, the chairman and chief executive of Enron, used his company stock to repay a loan sometime last year, a lawyer for Enron disclosed last night. That indicated that Mr. Lay had shed more of his holdings than had previously been disclosed.
The ultimate cause of Enron Corporation's (NYSE:ENE - news) brutal collapse, competitors and lawyers say, was a culture of greed and arrogance that bred excessive secrecy.
President Bush has received more money from Enron, its employees and their relatives over his political career than from any other source. The contributions supported Bush's unsuccessful House campaign in 1978, his two campaigns for Texas governor, renovation of his governor's office, last year's presidential race, his inaugurations and his presidential recount fund.
Democrats are savoring the chance to use embattled Enron Corp.'s Republican ties to embarrass the Bush administration at upcoming congressional hearings. But Republicans might turn the tables, to some extent at least, because Enron has courted and supported prominent Democrats as well.
What the world is now awakening to is that the Enron Corporation was not much of a company, but its executives made sure that it was one hell of a stock.
Special Report on Enron by the UK Guardian Unlimited
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1-10-02 The Enron Story You Haven't Heard - There are more sides to the worst corporate failure in history than you can imagine. The bankrupt energy trader Enron Corp., whose collapse last year is said to be the worst corporate failure in history, has 2,832 subsidiaries, of which 874 are registered in the Cayman Islands or other tax and bank secrecy havens.
“Companies come and go. It’s ... part of the genius of capitalism,” said Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill when asked if he was surprised at the sudden collapse of Enron. The company’s failure has left the one-time energy trading behemoth’s stock virtually worthless and thousands of workers’ pension funds in disarray.

In a pair of e-mails to his employees in August, the chairman of now-bankrupt Enron touted the company's stock and declared that the energy trader giant's growth ``has never been more certain.'' ``Our performance has never been stronger; our business model has never been more robust. ... We have the finest organization in American business today,'' Ken Lay said in an Aug. 14 e-mail just two months before Enron's long-hidden financial problems surfaced.
2-8-02 The Men From Enron, Mostly Mum Though nothing was said that was at all shocking or even very surprising -- four of the men present took the Fifth Amendment -- it was, in the end a very Washington moment: the faces of scandal lined up next to their dark-suited lawyers, a panel of angry politicians staring down at them with contempt.
2-8-02 Many lawyers, consultants say Skilling should have kept quiet. Most agreed he had little to gain from the appearance and probably should not have testified before dozens of politicians bent on displaying their distaste for anyone remotely connected to Enron's collapse.A main problem with Skilling's testimony before an investigations subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, several said, came when he appeared unresponsive or evasive.
2-8-02 Enron Chief Exec had his blinders on. Lawmakers heard sharply conflicting testimony today from Enron former chief executive, Jeffrey K. Skilling, who portrayed himself as ignorant of the company's questionable practices, and other executives who said Mr. Skilling received numerous and specific warnings that Enron's off-the-books partnerships were improper.
2-7-02 Jeb Bush Caught in Enron Lie - Gov. Jeb Bush spent up to a half-hour on the phone last April with Kenneth Lay, the former chairman of Enron Corp., the now-bankrupt Houston-based energy conglomerate that had an interest in breaking open Florida's energy market to outside companies. Bush said late last month he did not ''recall'' meeting or talking with anyone from Enron during his tenure as governor, although he said he had met with representatives of an Enron subsidiary.
2-7-02 Enron Lawyer Says Company Ignored Alarm A senior Enron Corp. lawyer raised red flags more than a year ago about the corporation's approval of supposedly arm's-length deals with partnerships managed by Enron insiders, new documents show. He has told House investigators he was rebuffed.
2-7-02 'Illegal' activity rampant The day before several Enron Corp. executives were to appear before his committee, a key House lawmaker Wednesday unleashed a torrent of accusation about illegal activities at the former energy giant.Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, called Enron officials deceptive, self-dealing and said they engaged in sham transactions.
2-6-02 Bush shuns call by Democrats for special counsel. Senate Commerce Committee chairman Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., says the Justice Department can't be objective because too many Bush administration officials have ties to the company. "We've got an Enron government," Hollings says
2-6-02 'Victims Of Enron's Lies' Emotional testimony at Senate hearing. Former Enron employee Deborah Perrotta choked up yesterday explaining how all her faith, creativity and trust went into the now-bankrupt company only to leave her so broke she can't pay for her daughter's wedding or her family's prescription drugs.
2-6-02 Portland General Electric workers had trouble getting into their 401(k) accounts for weeks before Enron cut off access to change plan administrators, a union official told a Senate committee on Tuesday. Enron benefits managers testified that the infamous 401(k) "lockdown" didn't begin until last Oct. 26, but union officers said they received the first complaints that employees couldn't trade in their accounts as early as Sept. 27.

2-5-02 CFO Pressured Enron Staff on Deals, The ousted chief financial officer of Enron Corp. wielded his managerial influence and control over bonuses to persuade underlings to cut favorable deals to partnerships he ran, the head of an internal inquiry into the transactions told Congress on Tuesday.
2-5-02 Deal at Enron Gave Insiders Quick Fortunes They called it Southampton Place. To most people in Houston, it was the name of a neighborhood known for expensive homes and influential residents. But to a small group of executives at the Enron Corporation, it meant something far different: the opportunity to obtain millions of dollars of cash, fast, with the money coming from the company's own coffers.
2-5-02 The Houston Astros want dump the name Enron Field.' The baseball team asked a federal bankruptcy judge in New York on Tuesday whether the team should continue its stadium-naming agreement with Enron Corp., the energy giant that collapsed in an accounting scandal.
2-5-02 Lay steps down from Enron's board of directors Irate lawmakers working on subpoenas. Former Enron Corp. Chairman Ken Lay resigned from the company's board of directors Monday, as irate lawmakers prepared subpoenas that would force him to appear on Capitol Hill. Lay, who resigned as chairman last month, severed final corporate ties with Enron, saying his problems had become a distraction to the company's efforts to emerge from bankruptcy.
2-5-02 Lay down to last dozen houses As Enron's former chief executive, Kenneth Lay, failed to show up for a congressional hearing yesterday, attention began to focus on his personal finances, amid claims that he may not be as hard up as his family has claimed.
2-5-02Enron Corp.'s collapse was the result of a "a systemic and pervasive attempt" to inflate profits and hide losses, not of a few rogue employees breaking company rules, a member of Enron's board of directors told a House panel yesterday.
2-4-02Enron: Crime, punishment and reform Enron's collapse - and its auditors' apparent failure to question the company's unorthodox business practices - has prompted a wave of investigations.
2-4-02 A Viewer's Guide to the Enron Hearings The ones to watch for revelations, entertainment, or just some quality shut-eye
2-4-02 Chewco Partnership Violated Rules With its "Star Wars" name, its elusive origin and its central role in the implosion of Enron Corp., the investment partnership named Chewco has been one of the mysteries of the unfolding scandal.
2-4-02 Lord Wakeham is facing potential financial ruin over his role as a director of Enron. The Tory peer has been named in lawsuits running into millions launched by 430 former staff of the collapsed US energy giant who are seeking to claw back cash lost from their retirement funds.
2-3-02 Enron Chief Financial Officer to Take the Fifth Former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow who is charged with pocketing $30 million from questionable deals that led to the company's collapse, will not answer questions in testimony before Congress, a lawmaker investigating the firm said on Sunday.
2-3-02 Lay on the Hot Seat on Monday Plenty will be watching as former Enron chief Lay faces congressional committees.
2-3-02 The dark side of capitalism Enron provides a fitting epitaph to the bubble decade of the 1990s. It is also a quintessential fable for our time, pointing up with black-and-white clarity the Faustian battle now being waged for the corporate heart and soul.
2-2-02 Enron contributions bought plenty Greed, sleaze and world-class selfishness characterize the implosion of Enron. In that outlaw outfit's wake remain crushed employees and robbed investors. The mantra of friends and defenders of the Bush White House was almost immediately heard in every interview: "Enron is a financial scandal, Enron is not a political scandal" — a statement that turns out to be only slightly more misleading than calling all of Bonnie and Clyde's bank hold-ups "a savings institutions crisis." Enron preached old-fashioned virtue and practiced old-fashioned vice.
2-2-02 Lay: Corporate father figure-turned-condemned business titan It's not just his company that is weighted with debits. Kenneth Lay's credibility is now a liability on his personal balance sheet.Once a man with intimate access to Washington policy-makers, the former chairman of Enron Corp. appears before Congress Monday as a business titan condemned by former employees and investors. They lost millions before the energy company entered bankruptcy Dec 2.
2-2-02 Enron End Run Every few days, another political figure is linked to the bamboozlers at Enron.
2-1-02 Top Ten Things You Need to Know About Enron. In a nation where more than half of all households are invested in the stock market, the largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history of the United States should put the fear of God in us. Primarily, it seems to have fueled fears about our retirements.
2-1-02 Justice Department orders White House to preserve Enron documents The Justice Department, drawing the White House into its criminal investigation of Enron Corp., ordered President Bush's staff today to preserve documents relating to conversations with Enron executives about the energy company's financial condition
2-1-02 FERC to focus on Enron's role in Calif. energy crisis Federal energy regulators Thursday launched an investigation into whether Houston's embattled Enron Corp. helped prolong last year's electricity crisis in California by unfairly manipulating wholesale power prices
1-31-02 Memo details Cheney--Enron links Company's suggestions resembled elements of the administration's energy policy. While the White House insists that details of its talks with Enron officials remain secret, a memo outlining those discussions reveals the extent to which the Houston energy giant lobbied to influence government policy.
1-31-02 Bush and Cheney want to do more in secret. Vice President Dick Cheney's refusal to turn over details about whom his energy task force met with - the subject of an unprecedented lawsuit expected to be announced yesterday by the General Accounting Office - can be seen as part of a broad White House effort to draw more of a curtain around the executive branch.
1-31-02 Concerned ex-worker was sent to human resources House panel asks Lay to explain what happened to memo from former energy services manager A one-time Enron Corp. manager who warned Chairman Ken Lay in August about questionable accounting practices was sent to human resources for a talk about employee morale, her attorney said Wednesday.
1-30-02 Congress' GAO to sue White House over energy plan documents. The General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress that's looking into the collapse of Enron, will sue the White House for access to documents from President Bush's energy task force, the agency said in a letter today to congressional leaders.
1-30-02 Ex-Enron workers feel jilted by Bush. Listening to President Bush talk about homeland security and the economy Tuesday night, Digna Showers felt something was missing. One of 30 former Enron Corp. employees who took an exhausting 25-hour bus ride from Houston to meet with lawmakers, Showers said she wished Bush had addressed the one issue they all came to talk about.
1-30-02 Enron in Price Fixing Probe. The nation's top energy regulator promised yesterday to investigate whether Enron Corp. manipulated long-term energy prices in western states until the day it declared bankruptcy last month.
1-30-02 Only off by 960,000 Enron acknowledged that they failed to disclose many of its lobbying expenses to Congress last year as the energy trader headed toward financial disaster on Tuesday night after a private group that tracks money in politics compared Enron's lobbying filing to Congress in August with congressional filings by outside lobbying firms
1-29-02 Enron underreported its lobbying expenditures by more than 50 percent in the first half of 2001. The company reported spending $825,000 on lobbying in the first six months of 2001, according to its mid-year report. However, 13 outside lobbying firms reported income from Enron totaling at least $1,785,000 over the same period, a discrepancy of $960,000.
1-29-02 White House press secretary Ari Fleischer compared the energy panel's deliberation to the writing of the US Constitution, noting that ''the very document that protects our liberties more than anything else, the Constitution, was of course drafted in total secrecy. ''Delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 were publicly identified.)
1-29-02 Hot on the E-Trail of Evidence at Enron. Much of that "shredded" data is being restored by computer forensics experts who know where and how to find it
1-29-02 President Bush on Monday defiantly backed his administration's refusal to hand over energy task force records to the investigative arm of Congress, calling the demand "an encroachment on the executive branch's ability to do business." The business of selling this country to the highest bidder.
1-28-02 Enron Employees File Suit as Lay's Wife Cries Poor Former employees of Enron Corp. who lost millions of dollars in retirement funds when the energy trading giant collapsed sued on Monday, while the wife of former CEO Kenneth Lay sobbed on national television and said her family has lost its fortune.
1-28-02 Labour faces Enron questions. The long-running controversy over Geoffrey Robinson's role in Tony Blair's government threatens to break out again this week when opposition MPs press for an inquiry into ministerial relations with Enron, the crippled US energy trader, and its accountants, Arthur Andersen
1-27-02 Three years ago, a German company pieced together a picture of the Enron Corporation's finances so troubling that it helped persuade the company to call off a merger with Enron
1-27-02 Now it has taken a deadly turn. Those who thought that the collapse of Enron, the world's biggest bankruptcy, would be restricted to Wall Street, got a nasty shock on Friday. The death of Clifford Baxter, the company's former vice-chairman, makes this a scandal of worldwide interest.
1-26-02 Division's motive for hiding losses may be unlawful. When Enron's energy-services unit slid its trading operations under the umbrella of its wholesale marketing arm last spring, it said the move was all about efficiency. What executives failed to tell the investment community, however, is that it was also about hiding losses.
1-26-02 Executive's death darkens Enron affair The apparent suicide of a former top Enron Corp. executive who was being pursued by company shareholders and U.S. congressional investigators has deepened the intrigue surrounding the energy titan's spectacular collapse.
1-26-02 Enron spread its net far and wide in bid to protect its business interests. The dollar trail snaked from Enron Corp.'s hometown of Houston to the Texas capital of Austin to Washington, D.C. Along the way, politicians who could help the energy trader got money for their campaign chests.
1-25-02 Public Citizen said on Friday that Congress should call Army Secretary Thomas White to testify in the collapse of energy giant Enron, since he was formerly a high-ranking Enron executive. Public Citizen, accuses White of taking action that could have benefitted Enron soon after he became Army secretary last spring. He left his position as Vice Chairman of Enron Energy Services to take up the Army job
1-25-02 The White House on Friday ordered a review of $70 million worth of federal contracts with Enron Corp. and the Arthur Andersen accounting firm to determine whether the embattled companies are worthy of government business. Well it is about time!

1-25-02 Like Enron employees, Lay could lose nearly all - his vast fortune from stocks, bonuses is susceptible to lawsuits. He netted nearly $145 million through stock sales alone in that 10 years. In just the past five years, he drew $6 million in salary and received more than $20 million in bonuses. He also may still be able to claim a $60 million severance package.
1-25-02 Stepping up pressure on the White House, a Senate panel investigating the Enron debacle said Thursday it will ask the Bush administration and four federal agencies to produce information on "what they knew and did" regarding the regulation of the Houston energy trader and its auditor.
1-24-02 He's the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee and a big recipient of Enron campaign contributions. She's on Enron's board and audit committee. Together, they are Phil and Wendy Gramm, a Washington power couple entangled like no other in Enron's fall.
1-24-02 Executives and accountants have much to answer for, but they can be forgiven for cracking a wry smile when members of Congress begin lecturing them on dereliction of duty. Congress itself, as much as Enron and Arthur Andersen, bears responsibility for the current state of affairs.
1-24-02 The case of Enron and its auditors may become spring 2002's successor to the Monica Lewinsky case, but addressing the scandal fails to address America's real problem, which is the domination of politics by money.
1-23-02 Enron and Argentina the twin debacles of globalization. It is said that in politics and in war, fortune smiles all too briefly. After allowing it to briefly savor the success of its Afghanistan campaign, history, cunning and inscrutable as usual, has suddenly dealt the Bush administration two massive body blows: the Enron implosion and the Argentine collapse. These towering twin disasters threaten to push the global elite back to the crisis of legitimacy that was shaking its hegemony globally prior to September 11.
1-23-02 Even the lawyers here are hiring lawyers. The astounding collapse of Enron Corp has devastated employees, infuriated shareholders, stung creditors and woken the regulators. Everyone's upset. And everyone's headed for court.
1-22-02 Enron security guards were stationed on the 19th and 20th floors of the company's building here Tuesday to prevent further shredding of documents, company lawyers said during a federal court hearing.
1-22-02 Shredded documents. Congressional investigations. Phone calls to the President's men. Billions of dollars vanished. And that's the short list of the intriguing goings-on in the scandal that is Enron Corp., the Houston energy-trading company.
1-22-02 A Texas Supreme Court justice who has been nominated by President Bush to fill a vacant federal judgeship could face a fierce Senate confirmation fight because her critics say she once wrote an opinion that saved the Enron Corporation (news/quote) about $15 million after accepting campaign contributions from the company.
1-21-02 Today Ralph Nader and leading citizen advocates and scholars, called for a Citizens Reform Agenda to address the Enron/Arthur Andersen scandals. The agenda proposes reforms for the accounting industry, the banking and lending industry, pensions, campaign financing, securities reform, and energy deregulation.
1-21-02 Monster Mess The Enron fallout has just begun. Anytime a stock market bubble bursts, a business scandal that epitomizes the excesses of that particular period is seldom far behind. The Roaring '20s had Teapot Dome. The end of the bull market in the early 1970s was marked by the collapse of Equity Funding Corp. The 1980s, of course, had Michael Milken.
1-21-02 Houston - Enron Corp. chairman Kenneth Lay held several meetings in late October with a vice president who had urged him to clean up a series of "improprieties," her lawyer said in a weekend interview.
1-21-02 U.S. Rep. John Tanner says Enron Corporation's bankruptcy is evidence of a divide between U.S. business and the spirit of capitalism.
1-21-02 They were insiders. They traded But whether 29 Enron officers and directors were guilty of illegal insider trading is something the courts will now have to decide.
1-21-02 The CEO of Arthur Andersen, the accounting firm responsible for auditing Enron, conceded Sunday that his company made errors but said that the energy giant's demise was ultimately the result of a failed business model, not shady accounting.

1-20-02 Ken Johnson, a spokesman for the House energy and commerce investigations committee, said: "It is becoming clear to us that people at both Andersen and Enron tried to hide the company's financial problems. If that happened, there is a very good possibility that some crimes were committed. The deeper we dig, the uglier this gets.
1-18-02 With the Enron collapse wiping out at least $1 billion from the retirement funds of teachers, firefighters and other public employees, states are joining a class-action lawsuit to win back some money.
1-18-02 As Questions Get Louder, Cheney Stays Silent - Critics want details on meetings with Enron over energy policy. He asserts executive privilege.
1-18-02 Almost two-thirds of Americans in a new CBS News poll think the Bush administration is either hiding something or lying about its relationship with Enron, the failed energy trading company that has been a big contributor to the president and to other politicians from both parties. The poll was of 1,030 adults was taken Jan. 15-17 and released Friday. It had an error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
1-18-02 Enron at the White House - A Wealth of Blindness
1-18-02 The Bush administration via Dick Cheney intervened with top Indian officials last year in a bid to salvage an Enron Corp. project in India, according to documents released on Friday that shed new light on the administration's relations with a major financial backer.
1-19-02 Wendy Lee Gramm snared in collapse fallout As ex-regulator, Enron director should have seen signals, critics say.
1-18-02 Arthur Andersen lurched deeper into crisis yesterday after it emerged that the accountancy firm may have been aware of the problems at Enron as much as one year ago.
1-18-02 Vice President Cheney tried to help Enron collect a $64 million debt from a giant energy project in India.
1-18-02 When the glare of publicity suddenly found him, David B. Duncan was cast as a rogue accountant, panicked into a shredding frenzy by the thought of investigators sifting through his auditing team's paperwork. The image may yet prove true. But those familiar with Arthur Andersen, and to the high-stakes auditing of Big Five accounting firms, suggest it stretches credibility to think he operated as independently as the bosses who fired him two days ago claim.
1-17-02 White House Backed Off Banking Laws - Bush Gave Enron Breathing Room
1-17-02 Enron Corp. fired Arthur Andersen yesterday, saying the accounting firm's top executives failed to disclose to Enron that they had serious bookkeeping concerns about the energy company as early as last February.
1-17-02 Enron paid no income taxes in four of the past five years, using almost 900 subsidiaries in tax-haven countries and other techniques, an analysis of its financial reports to shareholders shows. It was also eligible for $382 million in tax refunds.The company used strategies common among businesses to avoid taxes. It also used some unusual methods, among them the creation of 881 subsidiaries abroad, including 692 in the Cayman Islands, 119 in the Turks and Caicos, 43 in Mauritius and eight in Bermuda.
1-17-02 Enron Corp.'s beleaguered auditor Arthur Andersen discussed the collapsed energy trader's controversial accounting practices in a meeting almost a year ago, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing an internal Andersen memo.
1-17-02 Memo shows Andersen knew of Enron woes in Feb.
1-16-02 At least 10 House and Senate committees are going through documents and scheduling hearings to investigate the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history. That's on top of investigations underway at the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Labor Department and the Internal Revenue Service.
1-16-02 Accounting firm Andersen was warned of trouble at Enron Corp. last summer by an internal whistle-blower, Congressional investigators said after quizzing a fired Andersen audit partner in a widening probe into the collapsed energy trading giant .
1-16-02 Fired auditor knew in August about Enron whistle-blower's warning
1-15-02 It is well known that the Enron Corp. lavished money and attention on political figures all over the nation's capital. But for an insight into how carefully the company cultivated members of Congress, look no further than its efforts to please its home state powerhouse, Rep. Tom DeLay.
1-13-02 It's Time to Appoint a Special Prosecutor - To have the Bush Justice Department investigate Enron is a classic case of the fox being hired to guard the hen house.
1-15-02 Bush, the corporations' flag-carrier. Enron's collapse exposes the folly of his cash-for-influence policy. The Enron debacle is potentially so dangerous for Bush because it makes it painfully clear that the old equation does not hold. The Enron executives got rich even as their company was plunging into the abyss, taking its employees with it.
1-13-02 Democratic lawmakers are divided about how aggressively to investigate the White House's relationship to the implosion of Enron Corp., with an increasing number of party officials warning their colleagues against overreaching or showing too much glee in attacking a popular wartime president.
2-8-02 Mintz warned against criticizing Enron activity. Lawyer told not 'to stick neck out' When Enron attorney Jordan Mintz transferred into the company's Global Finance unit in October 2000, he was shocked at what he found. Employees who should have been looking out for Enron's interests were routinely negotiating lucrative deals with private partnerships they had a stake in.
2-8-02 The man who wants Cheney's Enron files. David Walker is the kind of guy who rarely wears jeans and if he does, friends say, they're probably ironed. He likes his numbers precise - usually carried out to the fourth decimal place. One of his biggest heroes in life is Elmer B. Staats, the fifth comptroller general of the United States.
2-7-02 Enron Exec Sold $270 Million in Stock Before Company Collapsed No one has come out further ahead in the Enron mess than Lou Pai, a 54-year-old former executive who, in the last two years, cleared an estimated $270.2 million
2-7-02 Letter links Lay to federal energy regulator Former Enron Corp. Chairman Ken Lay's patronage of federal energy regulator Pat Wood apparently began in 1994, according to a letter released Wednesday by Gov. Rick Perry's office. Lay's connections to Wood have been controversial since Enron's financial collapse last year.
2-6-02 De-Enron America Now; Pass Campaign Finance Reform The Enron scandal is a galling tale of deliberate misconduct in a climate of vanishing corporate accountability. While congressional investigators still have a lot to uncover, it is clear that both Enron and Arthur Andersen successfully used campaign cash as legalized bribery to limit government regulation and public scrutiny of their self-serving activities and shield themselves from accountability for bilking investors and employees.
2-6-02 Congress uses playbook similar to Enron's. Lawmakers, launching hearings on failed firm, have own history of odd accounting. Everyone in Congress except the pages - committed to silence on all things political - appears eager to blast Enron for accounting irregularities that obscured the real financial condition of that company.
2-6-02 Lawyers for former Enron chief Kenneth Lay have said he will appear before a Congressional panel investigating the collapse of the energy trading giant. "We've had assurances from his attorney that he will appear," said Congressman Michael Oxley, an Ohio Republican who chairs the House Financial Services Committee.
2-5-02 Former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay has vanished as government officials attempt to serve a writ that would force him to submit to tough questioning by Congress. His lawyer last night refused to accept Mr Lay's subpoena to appear before two committees investigating the world's biggest corporate bankruptcy, saying he had no idea of his client's whereabouts. He could be taking refuge in any one of his dozen homes.
2-5-02 Enron workers' benefits reportedly raided $15 million allegedly spent elsewhere. A former senior accountant at Enron told CBS News that the company took at least $15 million from legally protected worker-benefits accounts and spent it elsewhere. During an interview aired on CBS-TV's Evening News Monday, Robin Hosea said that immediately after joining Enron as a benefits specialist in 2000 she noticed the money was being spent in other departments.
2-5-02 Lay will be forced to testify. The Enron scandal exploded into open political warfare yesterday, as Congress declared its intention to subpoena the bankrupt energy trader's former chief executive, Kenneth Lay, and the Democrats accused the Bush administration of running a "cash-and-carry" government on behalf of the disgraced company.
2-4-02 Ex-workers let down as Lay alters his plans For former Enron employees in Houston, Ken Lay's televised testimony before Congress was going to be the equivalent of Sunday's Super Bowl. They had made plans to gather in bars, restaurants and homes today to hear what their ex-boss had to say. But when the former Enron CEO backed out of testifying on Sunday, they were left with more questions, anger and a lot of disappointment. They said they felt robbed.
2-4-02 Lay Gets Cold Feet Former Enron Chairman Kenneth L. Lay last night abruptly canceled a much anticipated appearance today before a Senate panel in the wake of a scathing report on the management failures and self-dealing that led to his company's spectacular collapse.
2-4-02 How a fledgling water business helped sink Enron Enron's crash now is being tracked back to deceptive accounting and unbridled deal-making that were part of the company's culture for years. Had anyone paid more attention, they could have seen it foreshadowed in the demise of a lesser-known corner of its business, a water unit called Azurix.
2-3-02 Congressmen Question Enron Dealings Two members of Congress pointed to possible criminality in the Enron scandal Sunday, saying the company manufactured income out of its off-the-books partnership deals that led to financial disaster.
2-3-02 Enron: the meetings Labour didn't reveal The row over Downing Street's links with energy giant Enron took a new twist last night when a former vice-president of the company revealed details of secret meetings it had with key Government figures.
2-3-02 Enron Panel Finds Inflated Profits and Few Controls A report from a special committee of the Enron Corporation board concluded yesterday that executives intentionally manipulated the company's profits, inflating them by almost $1 billion in the year before Enron's collapse through byzantine dealings with a group of partnerships.
2-2-02 Enron probe hits White House
Records requested from Bush, Clinton eras. The government's criminal probe into Enron's collapse reached into the White House yesterday, as the Justice Department asked the president's staff to preserve all Enron-related documents, including e-mails and records that might show staff contacts with company representatives.
2-2-02 Bush's 401(k) plans met with criticism Enron workers cry 'fluff,' businesses fear rules. This is all a very calculated plan to look like they are doing something -- but do nothing.
2-1-02 Next week brings flurry of Enron hearings. Two former Enron CEOs will take center stage here next week when the energy company's collapse is scrutinized in nine congressional hearings.
2-1-02 Lawmakers signaled Thursday that their questioning of former Enron Corp. Chairman Ken Lay on Capitol Hill next week is likely to be confrontational when he delivers his first public explanation of the company's collapse. Congressional investigators want to know how Enron executives were able to cash out millions of dollars in company stock while employees saw their retirement savings wiped out.
2-1-02 Harvard activists group call for Harvard to investigate Enron ties A watchdog group called on Harvard University President Lawrence Summers to investigate Harvard's ties to Enron Corp., including whether a company investing Harvard endowment money had inside knowledge of the now-bankrupt energy trader's financial problems.
2-1-02 Enron chairman gave list of favored names to White House; Bush named two as energy regulators A few months after the White House got a list of recommended candidates from former Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay, a friend and backer of President Bush, two of them were appointed to a federal energy commission
1-31-02 Puppets of Enron This is the story of Rs. 6,000 crore, a greedy and desperate company, and a prime minister and power minister determined to prevent the second from grabbing the first. They succeeded, and thus it was that Kenneth Lay failed in pulling off a magician’s trick — pulling out over a billion dollars from India’s turban.
1-31-02 Enron refusing to cooperate with investigation. Enron Corp. has failed to provide congressional investigators with important information about a web of partnerships used to conceal massive debts, a senator leading a probe of the company's collapse said today.
1-31-02 Enron chief's wife coached for a week before tearful TV interview. The wife of ex-Enron Corp. chairman Kenneth Lay spent a week under the tutelage of a public relations expert before her teary-eyed appearance this week on NBC's ``Today'' show, her sister-in-law said.
1-31-02 British Regulator Temporarily Steps Down Over Enron Questions Lord Wakeham, the former Conservative energy secretary denounced by US union leaders because of his involvement in the Enron affair, resigned as chairman of the UK's Press Complaints Commission.
1-31-02 Enron's new chief executive officer said he has no interest in finding out who's to blame for what went wrong at the energy giant, but will instead focus on revitalizing the business and preserving jobs.
1-31-02 Enron Directors Backed Moving Debt Off Books Members of Enron Corp.'s board of directors received detailed briefings as early as four years ago about the purpose and structure of controversial partnerships whose losses triggered the company's fall into bankruptcy, according to minutes of the meetings.
1-31-02 The spectacular collapse of Enron has already claimed an impressive roll-call of victims: from the thousands of employees who have lost their jobs and pensions, to the United States' Vice-President himself, who faces the indignity of a Congressional investigation. But as the political and commercial fallout reverberates across the Atlantic, Lord Wakeham finds himself drawing on all his skills as a wily backroom operator to clear his name over his involvement in the scandal.
1-30-02 Bush Opened Door to Enron, but Not to a State in Crisis Although prices for energy in California and the West have mostly returned to normal, the Enron bankruptcy continues to raise questions about the level of influence that energy companies had over the Bush administration during the California energy crisis and the formulation of President Bush's energy policy.
1-30-02 Sure would be nice to be this broke... An analysis of the Lays' holdings shows the value of stocks of companies in which Kenneth Lay has served as an officer or director alone had a market value of $10.9 million as of Tuesday, including remaining Enron shares. The high-powered couple sold 1.8 million shares of Enron stock, reaping more than $101 million, from 1999 through 2001, records show. The Lays own property in Aspen, Colo., Houston and Galveston areas valued in excess of $20 million. According to property records, most of it appears to be mortgage-free.
1-30-02 Shredding Away Enron acknowledged yesterday that it had contracted until mid-January with commercial shredding companies to destroy company records.
1-30-02 What corporate money buys on Hill: inaction. The Enron collapse is shining a bright light on a facet of Washington politics that doesn't get much attention: The most important action is often what doesn't occur.
1-29-02 California Burned by Enron Downfall Enron Corp.'s downfall opened fresh financial wounds in California - a state that blames the energy merchant for riddling it with crippling power bills last year.
1-29-02 Enron's corporate culture of cronyism, greed and economic violence may come as a surprise to Americans, but others have been long familiar with the company's sordid business culture. Over the last decade, the company has been leaving its now familiar and distasteful track half a world away in the Indian province of Maharashtra, where it attempted to bring online a $2 billion-to-$3 billion power plant — the largest foreign investment ever made in India.
1-28-02 George W. Bush is a crony capitalist. His business career was built on political connections, and his political career has been built on business backing.... Now Enron has exposed the dangers of this approach to politics.
1-28-02 Army Secretary Thomas White, a former top executive at Enron Corp., is coming under scrutiny by congressional investigators probing links between the Bush administration and the collapsed Houston energy trader.
1-28-02 Where the hell did all the money go? The wife of former Enron Corp. chairman and chief executive officer Kenneth Lay said the couple is working to avoid personal bankruptcy. Lay sold sold 1.8 million shares of Enron stock for $101 million from October 1998 to November 2001
1-28-02 Special-purpose vehicles used to control market, credit rating. As accountants, stockbrokers and others study Enron's collapse, they focus on the company's now-infamous "special-purpose vehicles" -- independent companies that propped up Enron's income and hid its debt.
1-28-02 Enron Spoils the Party. Bush wants his State of the Union speech to drown out those stories linking the disgraced company and the White House
1-27-02 Vice President Dick Cheney said today that the White House was prepared to go to court to fight the release of documents demanded by Congress as part of the investigation into any influence the Enron Corporation (news/quote) had in formulating the Bush administration's energy policy
1-27-02 The Enron scandal, which has become the consuming interest in Washington and around the country, is starting to have a particular resonance in Florida, where it is touching another Bush: Governor Jeb Bush.
1-27-02 Enron scandal threatens Cheney. Who knew what? - Congress ready to force Vice-President to reveal minutes of talks with failed giant.
1-27-02 The man who knew too much. Clifford Baxter was found dead with a gun in his car. He was a man under pressure. Like other directors, he sold shares as the firm's losses were hidden. He had documents; investigators wanted to speak to him. He was talking of hiring a bodyguard.
1-26-02 The myth of Enron. Beneath innovations in energy trading, Enron was seething with deceptive bookkeeping.
1-25-02 Traders for Enron Corp. allegedly used dummy accounts and a traders' "slush fund" to overstate profits over at least four years in a scheme to give an overly rosy picture of the company's finances, a financial industry expert said Thursday in testimony before a U.S. Senate committee.
1-25-02 An Enron Corp. executive has been found dead in a car in Sugar Land of an apparent suicide, police said. Enron officials confirmed the death this morning of Cliff Baxter, former vice chairman of the embattled Houston company.
1-25-02 Long-sought legislation to eliminate unregulated campaign contributions moved toward the House floor Thursday, propelled by the perception that Enron Corp. purchased influence with massive political donations. Lawmakers seeking to stem the flow of special interest money to politicians secured the final two signatures on a petition forcing House Republican leaders to allow a debate and a vote on the campaign finance revisions.
1-25-02 Enron executives enticed wealthy individuals and institutions to invest in one of the partnerships that helped wreck the company by dangling the prospect that inside knowledge could potentially help them double their money in a matter of months, according to partnership records and prospective investors.
1-25-02 Enron workers find solidarity in loss.Former Enron employees help each other with résumés, jobs tips, and grocery money.
1-24-02 Fired Enron auditor David Duncan refused to testify to Congress about the shredding of the Texas-based energy company's documents, invoking his Fifth Amendment protection Thursday against self-incrimination.
1-24-02 The Senate Finance Committee yesterday asked Enron to disclose its corporate income tax returns.
1-24-02 FBI plays public relations game at Enron. The FBI’s timing is impressive: it managed to swoop on Enron’s HQ only 92 days and about 11 hours after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) first began looking for signs of fraud at the now-bankrupt energy trading group.
1-23-02 The Labor Department's probe into the Enron debacle has focused on a period when participants in the company's 401(k) retirement plan were barred from selling their Enron stock, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao said Wednesday. It is important, Chao said, that the government "protect Enron workers who have seen their retirement benefits evaporate."

1-23-02 Enron employees are citing alleged violations of racketeering laws in a new lawsuit that blames company officers and fired auditor Andersen for employees losing some $1.3 billion in retirement savings.
1-23-02 Kenneth Lay resigned today as chief executive and chairman of Enron Corp. at the request of the committee representing the company's creditors.
1-23-02 Attorneys for Enron shareholders agreed late Tuesday on a proposed restraining order to safeguard financial documents and investigate their destruction by employees of the company and its auditor, Arthur Andersen.
1-23-02 In 2002 election, Enron looms large The return of Congress today marks the start of what promises to be one of the closest fights for control of the House and Senate ever - with all issues grist for Campaign 2002.
1-23-02 As reporters systematically uncover the links between Enron Corp, its accountants and virtually every American politician with a pulse, the multiplying connections can obscure as much as they reveal. In many quarters, the story is being portrayed as a simple morality tale of how money corrupts politics. Yet the lesson of Enron's experience in Washington is more complex. Money always matters, but it matters most when the media and public are not watching the decisions money is meant to manipulate.
1-22-02 Abruptly changing his tone about a company that contributed heavily to his political campaigns, President Bush said today that he was "outraged" that the Enron Corporation misled its employees and investors, including his mother-in-law, who he said lost more than $8,000 when its stock collapsed.
1-22-02 FBI searches Enron head office. Federal investigators have started a search of Enron's headquarters in Houston after a former executive alleged that documents had been shredded there even after a court forbidding such action.
1-22-02 Over three years starting in 1999, Kenneth L. Lay has reported receiving more than $200 million either from Enron (news/quote) directly or through exercising stock options. Yet, his lawyer now says, he was forced to borrow millions more from the company last year to meet his obligations.
1-22-02 The Enron debacle is proving to be an unexpected windfall for the effort to overhaul the nation's campaign finance laws
1-21-02 Enron shredded boxes of documents at its Houston headquarters weeks after the federal government began investigating the company, lawyers representing Enron investors said Monday night. ``They even shredded on Christmas Day,'' William Lerach, an attorney who is suing Enron, told The Associated Press. He said he was taking some of the shredded documents to court Tuesday where he will demand court custody of all relevant Enron papers.
1-21-02 The collapse of Enron Corp., so far a political, legal and investor crisis, is now imposing widespread costs on the U.S. economy, according to a range of companies, energy experts and bankers.
1-21-02 President Bush's advisers, fearing the Enron Corp. bankruptcy controversy could divert attention from his second-year agenda, are debating what to do about a political problem they helped create.
1-21-02 Nearly 200 former Enron Corp. workers have united to demand severance pay from the bankrupt energy giant that abruptly laid them off last month. "We're about getting just due compensation for former employees," said Rod Jordan, 63, one of 4,500 employees who lost their jobs when the company filed the largest-ever corporate bankruptcy.
1-21-02 Hearing Scheduled in Enron Probe In Shredding Case of Arthur Andersen Vs. David Duncan, Congress Wants Answers
1-20-02 Two questions which the White House has so far refused to answer are likely to become two of the most contentious issues in the Bush administration's first real domestic crisis. What did US Vice-President Dick Cheney know about Enron's slide towards bankruptcy? And to what degree did Enron CEO and chairman Kenneth Lay influence Cheney's formulation of White House energy policy?
1-19-02 Enron's loss may cost U.S. taxpayers. The firm and two partners want a federal agency that insured a power-plant project to pay $200 million. In the aftermath of Enron's collapse, which ruined the investments and retirement accounts of thousands of Americans, U.S. taxpayers may have to pay millions of dollars for the company's losses from overseas investments
1-19-02 Interviews with officials at Enron and its former auditor, Arthur Andersen, have yielded "great leads" in helping understand the energy giant's collapse and determine potential wrongdoing, congressional investigators said Friday.
1-19-02 Legal action against Arthur Andersen for its role in the collapse of the disgraced US energy company Enron increased yesterday as investors who lost billions of dollars turned their anger on the accountancy firm.
1-19-02 Interviews with officials at Enron and its former auditor, Arthur Andersen, have yielded "great leads" in helping understand the energy giant's collapse and determine potential wrongdoing, congressional investigators said Friday.
1-18-02 Evidence Indicates That O’Neill Helped Enron Hide Financial Condition; Public Citizen Calls on Treasury Secretary to Explain
1-18-02 Enron "scumbag" Chairman Kenneth Lay Urged Employees to Buy Stock a Month After Being Warned of Scandals. Lay urged employees to buy the company's stock and assured them Enron's finances were sound and its books in good shape. ``The third quarter is looking great,'' Lay messaged an Enron worker on Sept. 26, three weeks before the company announced $638 million in third-quarter losses.
1-18-02 Documents disclosed yesterday indicate that Kenneth L. Lay, the chairman and chief executive of Enron disposed of stock within days of receiving a letter warning of accounting problems at the company. They shuold lock this guy up and throw away the key.
1-18-02 The Bush administration labored yesterday to salvage its energy program from the wreckage of the Enron scandal, fending off criticism that its policies were tailored to suit Enron's needs and rejecting congressional demands for information about its contacts with the energy industry.
-1-18-02 Enron fires Arthur Andersen for failing to warn Enron about itself.
1-18-02 The deeper Enron scandal lies not in the nervous contacts with cabinet members when the giant corporation was sliding down the tube, but in its ability to manipulate a government awash in campaign contributions in the days when the company was flying high.
1-17-02 Congress' request for records fails. Bush won't release data on Cheney-Enron talks
1-17-02 Members of seven congressional committees investigating the collapse of Enron took more than $700,000 in campaign donations from the company over the past dozen years. Some have returned the money, but none has disqualified himself from the inquiry.
1-18-02 Enron: A Scandal So Good That It Hurt - This just keeps getting better and better.
1-17-02 Because Enron's political reach was so wide, it is becoming difficult to find government officials without connections as federal law enforcement agencies and Congress pursue investigations of the collapsed energy-trading giant. Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, one of Capitol Hill's biggest recipients of Enron campaign donations, is mulling whether to drop out of the congressional investigations into the company, which entered the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history on Dec. 2. His wife, Wendy Gramm, is on Enron's board and audit committee and is named in a lawsuit by investors against Enron executives and directors.
1-17-02 A team led by President Bush's economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey, a former Enron consultant who was paid $50,000 by Enron as the company's consultant in 2000, reviewed the company's financial woes last fall but did not take any action, the White House said Wednesday.
1-17-02 Accounting giant Andersen and collapsed power trader Enron Corp. share a long and now uncomfortably close relationship that begins--but certainly doesn't end--with a procession of executives who moved from the auditing firm to occupy top posts at Enron.
1-16-02 Legislators Rush to Dump Enron Money
Enron Corp. Chairman Kenneth Lay may have misled employees by telling them he expected the company's share price to go up just weeks before it started to collapse, high-ranking House Democrat Henry Waxman said on Saturday.

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