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Non-Tech : The ENRON Scandal -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (282)	1/14/2002 1:18:58 PM
From: Patricia Trinchero	Respond to of 5185

If we spend 50 million in investigations, haul thousands of people into court and spend the next eight years investigating I think it's safe to say that we will find some strong links to many people in the Bush admin who did ignore laws. We will find a sidewalk of criminals between Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. Although I do think we need campaign finance reform and this Enron debacle clearly makes that obvious, accepting campaign contributions is not against the law. All large companies usually give to both parties because they thing they fear the most is not being on the side of the winner. Even JFK's father gave to his son's opponent in case his son lost he wanted to have the winner beholding to him. If Bush and Cheney allowed Ken Lay to choose and fire the head of FERC then that is another story. If Bush allowed the people of California to hang out to dry during the phone energy crisis so Enron could glean illegally inflated profits then the administration is a partner to the criminal behavior. If Bush's first FERC chairman was fired because he didn't do what Lay wanted then we have additional gov't meddling.