Enron's Baxter Didn't Mention Company in Suicide Note to Wife
By Margot Habiby
Sugar Land, April 11 (Bloomberg) -- Enron Corp. former Vice Chairman J. Clifford Baxter apologized to his wife in a note that didn't mention Enron before
he committed suicide in January.
Sugar Land, Texas, police today released Baxter's suicide note after the Texas Attorney General's office determined it should be made public.
In the handwritten note, addressed to his wife, Carol, Baxter said, ``I have always tried to do the right thing but where there was once great pride now it's gone.''
``I just can't be any good to you or myself,'' he wrote. ``The pain is overwhelming. Please try to forgive me.''
Baxter, 43, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Jan. 25 in Sugar Land, a Houston-area suburb. Police there declined to reveal the contents of the note until the attorney general ruled.
Baxter resigned in May after a decade with Enron. The company is the subject of numerous shareholder lawsuits, as well as congressional and criminal investigations, after a December bankruptcy filing that was the largest in corporate history. Baxter was Enron's vice chairman before leaving the
company, and his estate is included in a suit filed by former Enron workers.
Enron spokesman Eric Thode said the company wouldn't comment on the note.
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