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

To: zonkie who wrote (1142)	1/24/2002 10:15:34 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5185

It's true. Mr. Hébert lost his job!! He lost his job to Mr. Wood because it was reported that Mr. Hébert would not agree to Kenneth Lay's demands. Imagine! Kenneth Lay layed out the game plan to Mr. Hébert. And Mr. Hébert refused! Note: Did any other contributors to W's campaign phone up Mr.Hébert and tell him how to run his job? To date, the answer is, "No." Kenneth Lay had special access to government employees and to George W. Bush's cabinet members. When Clinton was President, it was widely reported that he never interfered with the Fed. By contrast, Greenspan has personal friends in W's cabinet. To me, it looks like W got old Al out to prop up the stock markets today! It was only a week or so ago that Al warned that the economy might not recover as quickly as we thought. Guess W didn't like that line.

To: zonkie who wrote (1142)	1/25/2002 11:41:10 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5185

Some influence buying was indirect: nytimes.com Karl Rove, President Bush's top political adviser, recommended the Republican strategist Ralph Reed to the Enron Corporation (news/quote) for a lucrative consulting contract as Mr. Bush was weighing whether to run for president, close associates of Mr. Rove say. The Rove associates say the recommendation, which Enron accepted, was intended to keep Mr. Reed's allegiance to the Bush campaign without putting him on the Bush payroll. Mr. Bush, they say, was then developing his "compassionate conservativism" message and did not want to be linked too closely to Mr. Reed, who had just stepped down as executive director of the Christian Coalition, an organization of committed religious conservatives.