No Nancy sightings. Certainly destined for the Accounting Hall of Fame.
Enron Goes Hip-Hop with Ex-Employee's Rap Record
yahoo.com
Mon Oct 27,10:09 AM ET
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Former Enron honchos Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling are about to take the rap for the company's failure.
On a rap record, that is.
A former Enron pipeline engineer going by the name NRun is releasing a rap album, "Corporate America," that chastises his former bosses by name.
NRun, whose real name is David Tonsall, lost his job after Enron's collapse into a record bankruptcy in 2001.
Tonsall said he is angry that the Enron criminal investigation is taking years and has yet to name anyone higher up the corporate ladder than former Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow.
Tonsall decided to vent his frustration through the rap album, which has so far cost him $15,000 to make.
"I know you can't go postal. That ends up putting you in jail," said Tonsall, who now runs his own engineering firm, Synergistic Techneering.
He jokes that he went "from pocket protector to hard-core rapper," in a sly reference to the plastic shirt-pocket liners that are the bling-bling of the engineering set.
Neither Lay nor Skilling, both of whom are under investigation by federal prosecutors, has been charged with a crime. Lay, who was Enron's chairman, and Skilling, its ex-CEO, have both denied any wrongdoing.
The title track takes Lay to task, saying Enron's failure under his watch made a mockery of the values of respect, integrity, communication and excellence that he espoused.
NRun turns up the heat on Skilling in another song:
"Skilling, going to find you rain, sleet, or snow. When justice comes around, you're going to get hit."
The record is due out on Dec. 3, the two-year anniversary of the massive layoffs that followed Enron's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. |
