1. Special Prosecutor should be Appointed
Message 17040870
2. BUSH Refuses to tell Senators the names of his and CHENEYs contacts in Energy Industry January 23, 2002.
"The senators, including Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Carl Levin of Michigan, are spearheading the Senate probe of energy trading company Enron. They said the GAO should press its long-standing requests for White House contacts with the energy industry."
Message 16951884
GAO will suehttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=16992701
Enron Memohttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=16992720
3. The Bushies, White House and Lay Friendship
Message 16901215
Message 16992253
Message 17010648
Message 17011236
Message 17030320
4. Republican bosses can't escape from Enron glare
Message 16956669
5.Ashcroft [Excused] Himself From Enron Case
``The amount of Lay's contribution was many times greater than the maximum allowable contribution by
individuals to federal candidates, which is just $2,000, and it appears to have been given in a manner that
many campaign finance experts believe thwarted the intent of election laws,'' Waxman said.
Message 16892288
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6.Cheney, Aides Met With Enron 6 Times in 2001
Counsel: Energy Policy Was Topic
Message 16886193 from Washington Post
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7. How Will the Public Perceive Auditors, Accountants and Stocks
opinion:http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=16990876
opinion:http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=16985047
Message 17003293
8. Enron: The plain person's guide
see: Message 16987665
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9. Enron Spawns a New Lexicon
Message 17011421
10. Chronology of Enron Corp.
Thursday January 10 5:46 PM ET
By The Associated Press,
A chronology of Enron Corp.:
July 1985 - Houston Natural Gas
merges with InterNorth, a natural
gas company based in Omaha,
Neb., to form the modern-day
Enron, an interstate and intrastate
natural gas pipeline company with
37,000 miles of pipe.
1989 - Enron begins trading natural gas commodities.
Over the years, the company becomes the largest natural
gas merchant in North America and the United Kingdom.
December 2000 - Enron announces that president and
chief operating officer Jeffrey Skilling will take over as
chief executive in February. Kenneth Lay will remain as
chairman. Shares hit 52-week high of $84.87 on Dec. 28.
August 2001 - Skilling resigns after running the company for just six months;
Lay becomes CEO again.
Oct. 15 - Lay talks to Commerce Secretary Don Evans while Evans is in Russia
leading a trade mission. Commerce officials say the call dealt with an Enron
energy project in India and did not cover Enron's financial troubles.
Oct. 16 - Enron reports a $638 million third-quarter loss and discloses a $1.2
billion reduction in shareholder equity, partly related to partnerships run by
chief financial officer Andrew Fastow.
Oct. 22 - Enron acknowledges Securities and Exchange Commission inquiry into a possible conflict of interest related to the company's
dealings with the partnerships.
Oct. 24 - Enron ousts Fastow.
****** Oct. 28 - Lay talks by telephone with Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill to
inform O'Neill of the financial problems facing the company, according to
O'Neill spokeswoman Michele Davis. Davis said the two also talked on Nov. 8.
She said Treasury officials could detect no ripple effects in financial markets
from Enron's troubles and O'Neill did nothing to help the company.
Oct. 29 - Lay talks by telephone with Evans. A Commerce spokesman says Lay
asked Evans if he could do anything to influence a decision by Moody's
Investors Service to downgrade Enron's credit rating. Evans, after talking to
the general counsel at the Commerce Department ,
determines it would not be appropriate to intervene in a decision by a private
credit rating agency, according to Commerce spokesman Jim Dyke.
Oct. 31 - Enron announces the SEC inquiry has been upgraded to a formal
investigation.
Nov. 8 - Enron files documents with SEC revising its financial statements for
past five years to account for $586 million in losses.
Nov. 9 - Dynegy Inc. announces an agreement to buy its much larger rival
Enron for more than $8 billion in stock.
Nov. 19 - Enron restates its third-quarter earnings and discloses it is trying to
restructure a $690 million obligation that could come due Nov. 27.
Nov. 20 - Concerns about Enron's ability to weather its spiraling financial
problems send the company's stock down nearly 23 percent to its lowest level
in nearly 10 years.
Nov. 21 - Enron reaches agreement to extend $690 million debt payment.
Nov. 26 - Enron shares fall 15 percent, to $4.01.
Nov. 28 - Dynegy backs out of deal after Enron's credit rating is downgraded
to junk bond status. Enron shares plunge below $1 amid the heaviest
single-day trading volume ever for a NYSE or Nasdaq-listed stock.
Dec. 2 - Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection; sues Dynegy for
wrongful termination of merger.
Jan. 10, 2002 - Justice Department confirms it has begun a
criminal investigation of Enron Corp. Company's auditor, Arthur Andersen
LLP, says it destroyed some Enron documents.
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