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Al Gore’s campaign against global warming is shifting into high gear. Reporters and commentators follow his every move and bombard the public with notice of his activities and opinions. But while the mainstream media promote his ideas about the state of planet Earth, they are mostly silent about the dramatic impact his economic proposals would have on America. And journalists routinely ignore evidence that he may personally benefit from his programs. Would the romance fizzle if Gore’s followers realized how much their man stands to gain? Earlier this year Gore experienced a notable public relations debacle. The Tennessee Center for...

Who lobbies for Enron? Enron Understated Its Lobbying Expenditures, CRP Analysis Finds Below is a list of Enron-related lobbying expenditures for the first six months of 2001, reported by lobbying firms hired by Enron Corp. (An asterisk means the firm listed Enron Corp. as a client, but reported activity of less than $10,000. These firms were not included in the total reported by outside firms.) Quinn Gillespie & Associates LLC – $525,000Wyatt Tarrant & Combs LLP – $500,000 Bracewell & Patterson – $360,000 Sideview Partners Inc – $200,000 Alexander Strategy Group – $120,000 Commonwealth Group – $40,000Bob Moss Associates –...

Andersen convicted of obstructing justice 06/15/2002 Associated Press HOUSTON - Arthur Andersen was convicted Saturday of obstructing justice by shredding Enron-related documents in a verdict that could be the death knell for the shattered accounting firm and one that boosts prosecutors' efforts to get to the bottom of the Enron scandal. The jury took 72 hours over 10 days to decide that the destruction of paper and computer files was not routine housekeeping, as Andersen contended, but an attempt to thwart federal regulators investigating Enron. Andersen faces up to five years of probation and a fine of up to...