Clinton 'sweetheart' deal sped up Enron's collapse

WorldNetDaily ^ | 1/18/02 | Paul Sperry

[nopardons]

Great catch !

Go right ahead, Dems, keep bringing up ENRON, hold Congressional hearings, and get tarred once again with the CLINTON brush of corruption, and quid pro quo !

[nopardons]

FYI

[JohnHuang2]

Thanks for the heads up

[nopardons]

My pleasure.

Who is keeping the ENRON file ; bakhoe ?

[TRY ONE]

A lot of discussion about Lay, Klintoon & Bush but no discussion about "The Babe": Rebecca Mark (Enron International President) who "did" the India project and walked away from Enron last year with +$100 million. During the negotiations over the Indian Project, Enron Head Negotiator "Pu$$y Galore" would always show up waring her tight leather mini-skirt to rub salt in the Indian wounds. Her hotel suite in India was called the "Rebecca Palace". And the story goes on and on....

[set the record straight]

When will the Republican controlled House committees turn their full attention to the demoncrat Clintoon administration and the roots of the Enron problem?

[nopardons]

I could actually find out, but you wouldn't like the answer.

[Nitro]

But by the time Phase 2, twice as big as Phase 1, was nearly completed, the local Indian electricity board reneged on payments, claiming the power bills were too high.

Maybe they were worried about another Bhopal and their own culpability!!

At any rate they didn't trust the USA, why?

[Mo1]

President Clinton lobbied Indian officials on Enron's behalf during his April visit to India.

April?? .. well gee isn't that special .. and all this time I thought he went over there to help raise money for the people of India .. didn't he promise to give them 50 million or something like that??? ...

Maybe we should take a little further look at all his over seas visits???? .. should be interesting

[Ann Archy]

Great memory!! Yes, he went to India to raise money for earthquake victims....yeah, right!!!

keep this bumped...good info...lots of names...Hazel O'Leary...Mack McLarty...Ron Brown...and who is Rebecca Mark???

[leadpenny]

Good article. Maybe I missed it but wasn't the final straw before the collapse the pull-out by another company in a proposed buy-out?

[The Raven]

So if India pays the $5 billion to the 401k accounts - would that make everything better?

[mmmmmmmm....... donuts]

That Indian deal didn't go over well for Enron. But let's get a little perspective here: Enron thought it had a money making proposition, and Clinton greased the wheel so a big US company could win the bid. That's what the Commerce Department is SUPPOSED to do. That's hardly scandalous.

To me, there's only Dem that really looks bad, and that's Robert Rubin.

[metesky]

REBECCA P. MARK
1999 Keynote Address

Rebecca Mark is former Chairman and CEO of Azurix, the Enron subsidiary formed in 1998 to pursue the global water business.

Ms. Mark has previously held executive positions with Continental Resources Company and First City National Bank of Houston. A native of Missouri, Ms. Mark has both a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in international management from Baylor University and an MBA with distinction from Harvard University. She currently serves on the Brunswick Corporation board of directors. Ms. Mark is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations, Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) and The Chase Manhattan Corp. National Advisory Board. She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Yale School of Management, the Visiting Commiftee of The Board of Overseers at Harvard Business School and the Board of Governor's Lauder Institute (Wharton).

Ms. Mark lives in Houston, Texas with her 13-year-old twin sons. Return to Water Conference Home Page

[leadpenny]

...I, for one, would be interested to learn if her mouth was ever intimate with Clinton.

Please, people could be eating breakfast.

It is an interesting thought, though.

[spycatcher]

Something deeper regarding this whole deal stinks very bad. It made absolutely no business sense whatsoever, since India had no natural gas to run the plant. It seems like a shotgun marriage arranged by Bill Clinton for kickbacks to a Swiss bank account or something. There had to be more cash involved than $100K to the DNC.

From Enron's India Disaster:

"To secure supplies of liquefied natural gas for the project, Enron lobbied New Delhi to change its tariff system, which had been designed to discourage energy imports. Enron got India to slash its duty on imports of liquefied natural gas from 105 percent to 15 percent.

"With those changes approved, Enron brokered a deal with Qatar to provide the Dabhol plant 2.5 million tons of liquefied natural gas per year for 25 years, starting in 1997."

Another related article here: Enron Gave Big Bucks to Democrats, Backed 'Global Warning' Scam

[spycatcher]

ping

[mtman]

No Clinton romance there!..Shes too pretty and too smart...That type of women really intimidated him...think about it...He is a sexually insecure predator...The evidence is everywhere!...Some Dr. could make a fortune by writting a book about it...