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Enron Toll Widens with Death of Former Executive
Reuters ^
| 1/25/02
| C. Bryson Hull
Posted on 01/25/2002 1:30:54 PM PST by dead
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To: Romulus
And maybe Clinton's lawyers who are in charge of the Enron defense made the decision for him. I sure would like to see whose names are on all of those partnership papers. 30 million dollars to put them together -- this was no suicide ==
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posted on
01/25/2002 3:29:05 PM PST
by
Woodkirk
To: concerned about politics
In case anyone missed this....It has not hit the main stream press. This was an article from The Rocky Mountain News, Denver. I dont know about anyone else, but I didnt miss it. And its actually a frontpage story on Yahoo. Link
To: cascademountaineer
I dont know about anyone else, but I didnt miss it. And its actually a frontpage story on Yahoo. LinkI'm not referring to the Baxter suicide today, I'm talking about the Arther Anderson guy last week,(Friday, I think)... His name was Watkins.
To: hopespringseternal
Hmm...
On armed forces radio network, they just interviewed a woman who had worked closely with Baxter adn who was a friend of the family. She said he was in good spirits since leaving ENRON and had just taken his family on a yacht tour of the Caribbean!
Sounds to me like somebody forced this whistleblower to put the gun to his head. He had $35 million, a wife and 2 kids he loved, a clear conscience and a future... why him? Why now?
Looks like tha plan is to "pin the tail on the donkey" [the donkey of choice being AA's David Duncan]. Maybe someone in ENRON didn't want the tail pinned on them!
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posted on
01/25/2002 3:40:58 PM PST
by
slym
To: seamole
This is about clinton and his own personal security, not Bush and national security. We see all the same players (media, Jackson, hill hearings, etc.) take their respective places in clintons tawdry little theater, their motive, the pattern we've seen played out for 8 years are all the same. Jesse goes in with 'advice'(from whom?), media points the wrong way, arkancide, etc....
To: hopespringseternal
Business isn't like crime and business types think differently than criminals
Well to some extent. It is criminal to sell drugs, or to prostitute yourself, yet that is really just another business venture. So such criminals are only criminal because as a society we ban certain activities and objects.
If we are talking about outright stealing then yes, criminals differ. But then again business will get the government to use its force to benefit it. This can be through regulations designed to hurt other companies, or using the military to install friendly foreign governments to get access to cheap raw materials and labor. Corporations dont donate lots of money to government because they think it promotes liberty and justice. They are buying favors and paying tribute the same as you would to the local mafia boss.
Many business people do not think like criminals. But certainly some do. And the kind of people who get to be on the top in large corporations are generally the kind of people who dont have many moral principles. They generally have had to sacrifice quite a bit to meet that singular objective of being on top.
Really to be fair since humans are fallable and often times downright nasty, it is reasonable to expect that they inhabit all sorts of organizations. So I'd say that businessmen are at least no more evil then the hollywood types who as you rightly point out vilify them.
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posted on
01/25/2002 3:49:27 PM PST
by
verboten
Comment #67 Removed by Moderator
To: dead;Uncle Bill;Askel5;OKCSubmariner
Sounds like a political insurance policy Washington D.C. style.
The buying and selling of Justice !!!!!
ENRON SPREAD ITS MONEY AROUND
Almost all of the U.S. legislators serving on congressional committees investigating Enron have received campaign contributions from Enron or Andersen, the New York Times reported on Friday.
Of the 248 senators and members of the House of Representatives on 11 congressional committees investigating the firm, 212 received donations from the two firms, according to an analysis by the Times and the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit research group that tracks money in politics.
To: concerned about politics
I'm not referring to the Baxter suicide today, I'm talking about the Arther Anderson guy last week, I noticed right after I posted that, my bad. : )
To: dead
Alright..a witness that could name names and tell where the bodies are buried is wacked and everybody thinks suicide? Where in heck did these cops go to school? Boulder, CO? Also, Jesse Jackson's getting involved, I'd say the official media circus regarding this entire sorry mess has begun, eh?
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posted on
01/25/2002 3:54:02 PM PST
by
Braak
To: verboten
"Some rob you with a six gun; some with a fountain pen."
from a depression era song about an outlaw
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posted on
01/25/2002 3:57:38 PM PST
by
lucysmom
To: Donald Stone; ThanksBTTT
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posted on
01/25/2002 4:00:54 PM PST
by
Askel5
To: longleaf
I've never aspired to a career in the highest levels of corporate America. One reason is I don't like urban areas and moving around a lot. But another reason is I've always suspected it's a lot like the Mafia in terms of the corruption involved. It used to be that everyone had a good understanding of the working of the upper reaches of business and government. But the schools seem to have stopped teaching Shakespeare -- Julius Ceasar, MacBeth, Richard II, Hamlet, Othello, etc.
To: Dog Gone
One thing that I thought was interesting from this story was the photo of his house. That doesn't appear to be a terribly expensive house for the Sugar Land real estate area. I can't see the entire house, but I'd put it in the $500,000 range. Certainly not a million dollar house, which is surprising for someone who had made as much money as he had.
Depends on the part of Sugar Land. For Sugar Creek, that house looks a bit undersized (and not quite gaudy and tasteless enough). For other parts, the more-like-Quail-Valley parts, it's perfect.
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posted on
01/25/2002 4:08:58 PM PST
by
Xenalyte
To: dead
As I understand it, before he left, he sold off his holdings and is part of the group of executives being sued. The guy did have a conscience and I knew someone would blow their brains out over this.
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posted on
01/25/2002 4:09:14 PM PST
by
Hildy
To: Old Hickory
Welcome to the new world order.... where you not only lose your legislators (too cash-soaked and impotent to ever question Enron till the trainwreck)...
If to all observers I'm doing my job, what's to question? If I happen to commit fraud during the course of said job, only those who check up after me will know. I've worked for a mutual fund for quite a few years now, and I'm willing to state categorically that no member of Congress has the power, time or inclination to vet SEC filings for possible fraud.
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posted on
01/25/2002 4:11:28 PM PST
by
Xenalyte
To: Old Hickory
. . . . their aging parents who chose between food and heart medicine . . .
Oh, c'mon. Don't trot out that old canard. Old people as a group have more financial security than young people, and the vast majority of Enron workers were a) under 40, so they have 25 years or so to rebuild their savings, and b) grossly irresponsible in not diversifying.
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posted on
01/25/2002 4:13:26 PM PST
by
Xenalyte
To: longleaf
Or, in this case, was that the (Red) Mafiya?
Comment #79 Removed by Moderator
To: Xenalyte
They showed an overhead shot of the house on the news tonight....it's larger than this picture would make you believe...and news anchor said it was a $750K house.....
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