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

To: zonkie who wrote (688)	1/17/2002 1:19:49 AM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 5185

I agree.

To: zonkie who wrote (688)	1/17/2002 1:24:27 AM
From: zonkie	Respond to of 5185

Excerpted from CNN...more at: cnn.com • The FBI sent out an internal bulletin seeking 38 agents who are also certified public accountants to relocate to Houston to staff the Enron task force, officials told CNN Wednesday. • According to a report by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-California, who has been critical of the White House for not releasing records related to the closed-door meetings of Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force, "There are at least 17 policies in the White House energy plan that were advocated by Enron or that benefited Enron." A spokeswoman for Cheney dismissed the Waxman report as "election-year maneuvering." • Sen. Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, warned the Justice Department Wednesday it might have a conflict of interest with Arthur Andersen. In a letter to Deputy Attorney General Lawrence Thompson, Leahy, D-Vermont, noted that the accounting firm has a contract worth more than $700,000 with the Justice Department to complete a review of the FBI as it undergoes a reorganization. • A former federal regulator said Enron tried to manipulate U.S. energy policy. Curtis Hebert Jr., a former commissioner with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in the Clinton administration, said in an interview with CNN: "Everything they espoused to Congress and to state leaders was always what's in the best interests of Enron, never what's in the best interests of American energy companies _______ More about that last paragraph at: cnn.com