RUBIN SMOKING GUN

email | 07-26-02 | Rep. Mark Foley (FL-16)

[press]

FOLEY ASKS BROKAW, JENNINGS, RATHER TO COVER RUBIN-ENRON STORY

-- Wants air time before Senate breaks for recess --

WASHINGTON - Congressman Mark Foley (FL-16), one of the first Members of Congress to call for the testimonies of former Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Senator John Corzine for their companies’ involvement in the Enron scandal, today wrote the Big Three television network anchors asking them to cover the Rubin-Enron story on their broadcasts. The letter to Tom Brokaw of NBC, Peter Jennings of ABC and Dan Rather of CBS is as follows:

Tom Brokaw, NBC

Peter Jennings, ABC

Dan Rather, CBS

July 26, 2002

Dear Sirs:

As you know, over the last few weeks, print and broadcast news has been peppered with reports on corrupt CEOs and talk of corporate accountability legislation on Capitol Hill. As President Bush and our Congressional Leaders promised, the strong action Americans demanded has come to fruition.

While I am not writing to complain about your coverage of the scandals or the legislation, I am calling upon you to cover what could be the real smoking gun in the Enron scandal - former Clinton Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin.

Numerous media reports directly implicate Mr. Rubin in this scandal. Here’s how John Fund of the Wall Street Journal put it: “Citigroup, which he [Rubin] has headed since 1999, played a central role in concealing Enron's growing debts from investors and regulators. Last November Mr. Rubin phoned Peter Fisher, a Treasury undersecretary, and asked him to intervene with credit-rating agencies that were about to downgrade Enron's status. John Diaz, a managing director of Moody's Investors Service, says Mr. Rubin also contacted him about getting a higher credit rating for Enron. Both men rebuffed Mr. Rubin's requests, which struck them as highly unusual.”

Since this has come to light, I have been calling on Senator Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, and Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the subcommittee probing Enron's internal practices, to subpoena Mr. Rubin and hear his testimony.

Additionally, when you consider the fact that Citigroup has, over the last five years, been one of Mr. Lieberman’s top campaign contributors and has also dipped into its coffers for Mr. Levin, this story takes on an even more troubling dimension.

Gentlemen, I’m assuming you simply haven’t found the time to cover this story. However, now that the Fox News Channel, CNN, USA TODAY, The Associated Press, The Washington Times and many others have begun their coverage of this story, I would hope you will find a few minutes to devote to this before the Senate breaks for its August recess next week.

Sincerely,

Mark Foley

Member of Congress, Florida 16

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[BOBTHENAILER]

We ARE the day. Now that should be Quote of the Day.

I'll second that nomination. Despite all the despair about this getting out, it is, wait till Rush gets back. I've already heard it there this week with his stand-in, and you know he'll trumpet it to 27 million listeners. Also heard it on Hannity and it will spread. Why? because.......

Not only are we the day, WE OWN THE NIGHT.

[Nephi]

Speaking of newscasters: am I the only one who has the hots for Patti Anne Browne from Fox News?

Yes. While she is attractive, Heather Nauhert has my undivided attention.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Nice post Mr. Pressman. This is being spread far and wide. Screw the little minded three. We'll get it out there.

[ozzymandus]

Bump, even though the congressman's letter is hopeless.

[Freee-dame]

About 10 times the people who watch cable news.

Unfortunately, a lot of them are probably the mildly interested who believe what the see, thinking they are getting the best.

[Edmund Burke]

What kind of name is Dhue? Is she married to a Vietnamese?

[backhoe]

Follow the links within that link- one will take you to a list of email addies for Congress & Senate, as well as others. There are brief instructions for how to do a mass mailing but make it look like an individual mailing.

I forgot to add these:

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[buffyt]

Excellent letter! If only one of the recipients were a conservative!!!!

[Barry Goldwater]

Hey Patti Anne Brown is hot! She 100x better than Laurie Dhue.

[McLynnan]

Maybe we should all email Jennings, Brokaw and Rather and remind them their slipping ratings are due to their failure to cover hard news, especially when it casts aspersions on the left. Rubin's hands are filthy up to his armpits in this matter.

[Hugin]

Pubs need to learn to put what Rubin was doing in simple terms than the average Joe can understand.

Rubin worked for Citibank and they held $140 million in worthless Enron junk bonds. He tried to get the Treasury Dept to delay downgrading Enron's credit ratings just long enough for Citi to dump them off on some unsuspecting suckers. That's the bottom line.

[majic12]

He knew Enron was a bust, and he's making phone calls on their behalf: "Hi, this is former U.S. Secretary of Treasury Robert Rubin..."

What's complicated?

[OldFriend]

Fairy Boy Howard Kurtz is now suggesting that the Republicans will force the media to cover this story. Somehow laying the blame for putting Rubin and Enron in the same sentence as the fault of the Republicans.

[SolitaryMan]

Are you kidding? E.D. Hill has more conservative brains than ANY other female anchor on ANY news show.

[Hugin]

What's complicated?

It's not. But "dumping Enron junk-bonds on unsuspecting investors" has a little more zing!

[My Favorite Headache]

Incorrect. She has bashed Bush more times than a DU disruptor has as well as questioned everything he does and his poll numbers. She also has talked up B.C. before and made excuses for him. I have seen enough to not like her.

[SolitaryMan]

Can anyone please fill me in on how Corzine was involved with ENRON?

[majic12]

BTW: Aren't executive branch employees obligated to certain ETHICS RULES after leaving government? Mr Rubin? Or did William J. 86 those rules along with the Arkansas suicide/autopsy regulations...?

[Jhensy]

I've been touting the babe-a-licious Patti Ann for a while now. She's the Mary Ann to Laurie Dhue's Ginger.

I've also predicted on these boards that she will become a star, maybe the next big morning host... don't let her get away, FOX!