Posted on 02/12/2002 6:37:30 AM PST by alaskanfan
Senator Joseph Leiberman
706 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
RE: Enron Investigation
Dear Senator Leiberman,
I watched your Sunday morning appearance on Face the Nation with intense interest. Inasmuch as I own a fair amount of Enron stock in my SEP/IRA, I'm sure you can understand my curiosity relative to your investigation. Knowing you to be an honorable man, I feel secure that you will diligently pursue the below listed matters in an effort to determine what part, if any, these matters contributed to the collapse of Enron.
1. Government records reveal the awarding of seats to Enron executives and Ken Lay on four Energy Department trade missions and seven Commerce Department trade trips during the Clinton administration's eight years.
a. From January 13, 1995 through June 1996, Clinton Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and White House Counsel Mack McLarty assisted Ken Lay in closing a $3 billion dollar power plant deal with India. Four days before India gave final approval to the deal, Enron gave $100,000 to the DNC. Any quid pro quo?
b. Clinton National Security Advisor, Anthony Lake, threatened to withhold aid to Mozambique if it didn't approve an Enron pipeline project. Subsequent to Mr. Lake's threats, Mozambique approved the project, which resulted in a further $770 million dollar electric power contract with Enron. Perhaps, if NSA Advisor Lake had not been so busy strong-arming for Enron, he might have been focused on something obliquely related to national security like, say, Mr. Bin Laden? Could it be that a different, somewhat related, investigation is warranted?
c. In 1999, Clinton Energy Secretary Bill Richardson traveled to Nigeria and helped arrange a joint, varied, energy development program which resulted in $882 million in power contracts for Enron from Nigeria. Perhaps if Energy Secretary Richardson had been more focused on domestic energy, we might have avoided:
i. The severe loss of nuclear secrets to China and concurrently
ii. developed more domestic sources of energy.
d. Subsequent to leaving Clinton White House employ, Enron hired Mack McLarty (White House Counsel), Betsy Moler (Deputy Energy Secretary) and Linda Robertson (Treasury Official). Even a person without a high school diploma (no disrespect to airline security screeners) can see that this looks like Enron paying off political favors with fat-cat corporate jobs, at the expense of stockholders and Enron pension employees.
e. Democratic Mayor Lee P. Brown of Houston (Enron headquarter city), received $250,000 just before Enron filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Isn't that an awful lot of money to throw away right before bankruptcy?
The Democratic National Committee was the recipient of hundreds of thousands of dollars from 1990 through 2000. The above matters appear to be very troubling and look like, smack of, reek of, political favors for campaign payoffs. I know you will find out.
2. Recently, former Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin called a top U.S. Treasury official, asking on Enron's behalf, for government help with credit agencies. As you well know, Rubin is the chairman of executive committee at Citigroup, which just coincidentally, is Enron's largest unsecured creditor at an estimated $3 billion dollars.
3. As you well know, Mr. Leiberman, Citigroup is Senator Tom Daschle's largest contributor ($50,000) in addition to being your single largest contributor ($112,546). This fact brings to mind some disturbing questions I feel you must answer.
a. Have you, any member of your staff, any Senate or House colleagues, any relatives or any friends of yours, been asked by Citigroup to intercede on their behalf, in an effort to recover part or all of Citigroup's $3 billion, at the expense of Enron's shareholders, employees and or Enron pensioners?
b. Did your largest contributor, Citigroup, have anything to do with the collapse of Enron?
c. Enron has tens of thousands of employees, stockholders and pensioners who have lost their life savings. How will you answer their most obvious question? Do you represent Citigroup, your largest contributor, or do you represent the Enron employees, et al, who stand to lose if Citigroup recovers any of its $3 billion?
During Sunday's Face the Nation, both you and Senator McCain praised Attorney General Ashcroft for recusing himself from the Justice Department investigation because he had once received a contribution from Enron. I know in my heart, that, being the honest gentleman you are, you will now recuse yourself because of the glaring conflict of interest described above. I also know that you will pass this letter to your successor for his or her attention.
Very truly yours,
Robert Theodore Knalur
Did Savage credit you with writing this letter? Sometimes his ego is incapable of recognizing that someone else has a logical mind and can be right on target.
Are you allowing others to use your letter with appropriate credit to get to those who need to know!
thank you for the ping Meekie.
(If that is acceptable to you of course.) :)
Jen
Two years ago BOBTHENAILER's letter would have gone straight to the roundfile. Perhaps the acceptance of BOBTHENAILER's letter at this time signals a sea change in politics by the intelligentsia. How will they feel when they discover the VRWC thinks as they do that Enron is the tip of the scandalous scamberg?
Your letter should be used by Freepers like a deadly smart bomb on the left wing maggots who control the media and their lap dogs in the senate/house!
This whole thing should backfire with blowback, unfortunately nearly the entire political establishment has dirty hands so it will go nowhere -- they just want to look like they are doing something.
The real scandal is the waste, graft, theft and corruption inside the myriad federal agencies and programs. $2.3 trillion is unaccounted for in the defense department alone! Not to mention $3B missing from the Indian Affairs, $10's of billions from education, etc. Talk about lousy accounting practices, our Federal Government takes the cake.
WAY TO GO!!! bump!
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