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

To: Jerome who wrote (774)	1/18/2002 12:39:23 AM
From: Patricia Trinchero	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5185

HEre is some levity: cagle.slate.msn.com

To: Jerome who wrote (774)	1/19/2002 7:16:35 PM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 5185

The years immediately following World War I saw a resurgence in political corruption, and one of the most notorious scandals in presidential history. The Teapot Dome Scandal during Warren G. Harding's presidency began in 1921 when Harding, in a move subsequently deemed illegal by the Supreme Court, transferred responsibility for naval oil reserve lands to the Department of the Interior. The "Secretary of the Interior, Albert B. Fall, went on to exploit those rights for his own gain, in 1922 secretly granting exclusive rights to the Teapot Dome reserve in Wyoming to the Mammoth Oil Company in exchange for cash and no interest "loans." He granted rights to the Elk Hills and Buena Vista Hills reserves in California to the Pan American Petroleum Company in 1921-22 for similar compensation." Jerome, thanks for a summary of Tea Pot Dome. Our own Interior Secretary Gail Norton has been busy leasing lands while the country watched the war in Afghanistan! M