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	Enron Corp. – News, trials and the history of the scandal \| Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
		Enron Corp. – News, trials and the history of the scandal
		Vanessa D. Gimore, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas, poses for a portrait in her chambers at the Federal Courthouse Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2006, in Houston.
		Enron Corp. – The financial collapse, bankruptcy and trials surrounding Houston’s biggest corporate scandal.
	www.chron.com /news/specials/enron (602 words)

	Enron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Enron was originally involved in the transmission and distribution of electricity and gas throughout the United States and the development, construction, and operation of power plants, pipelines, and other infrastructure worldwide.
		Enron's global reputation was undermined by persistent rumours of bribery and political pressure to secure contracts in Central America, South America, Africa, and the Philippines.
		Enron's plunge occurred after it was revealed that much of its profits and revenue were the result of deals with special purpose entities (limited partnerships which it controlled).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Enron (4501 words)

	Enron: Who We Are
		Enron's business is to create value and opportunity for your business.
		It's difficult to define Enron in a sentence, but the closest we come is this: we make commodity markets so that we can deliver physical commodities to our customers at a predictable price.
		Enron's four business units -- Wholesale Services, Energy Services, Broadband Services and Transportation Services -- offer a wide range of physical, transportation, financial and technical solutions to thousands of customers around the world.
	www.enron.com /corp/whoweare.html (259 words)

	Enron Field
		Enron's top executives were more aware of the risks in the one-time energy trader's controversial partnerships than they have previously acknowledged, according to documents released by congressional investigators.
		Enron Corp. collapsed last fall because of massive failures by its management, board and outside advisers as well as self-enrichment by some employees "in a culture that appears to have encouraged pushing the limits," according to an internal report released yesterday.
		Enron employees, whose retirement plans vanished amid the debris of the energy giant's bankruptcy, are quietly pointing federal investigators toward the man they think most responsible for the fiasco: former Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling.
	www.cursor.org /enronfield.htm (6381 words)

	ENRONGATE
		Enron is accused of hiding its debts and creating a conflict of interest, according to investor lawsuits, by allowing its chief financial officer, Andrew Fastow, to run several partnerships that were not disclosed to shareholders.
		Enron, a company close to both the Bush hearts and the Bush pocketbooks (is there a difference?), has served as a virtual home away from home for members of the previous and current Bush administrations.
		Enron has also provided employment for a number of officials in the Bush II Administration, in addition to being the single largest financial contributor to the political career of President "Duh-bya.'' The relationship between Enron and the Bushes has been long, and profitable.
	www.bushwatch.net /enron.htm (5967 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Enron scandal at-a-glance
		Enron lied about its profits and stands accused of a range of shady dealings, including concealing debts so they didn't show up in the company's accounts.
		Enron executives also met Vice President Dick Cheney and his energy task force several times to discuss the administration's energy plan.
		Labour's relationship with Enron's accountants, Andersen, has also raised questions, especially as the firm was taken off the unofficial fllist for government work, where it had been placed after the De Lorean car scandal in the early 1980s.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/1780075.stm (970 words)

	Enron Blog
		Enron commissioned hundreds of videotapes, some of which were used in the documentary.
		Enron claims the PUD owes it $117 million -- now more than $122 million with interest -- because it cancelled a contract to buy electricity at inflated prices during the 2000-01 West Coast energy crisis.
		To other Enron executives, it appeared as if Kinder was afraid to take her on, because he realized this was one battle that he would lose.
	www.enronblog.com (2263 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Enron
		Enron began in 1985, when it started operations as an interstate pipeline company created from the merger of Houston Natural Gas and Omaha-based InterNorth.
		Enron founder Ken Lay leaves the federal courthouse on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 in Houston.
		May 1, 2003: Lea Fastow, Enron's former assistant treasurer and wife of former CFO Andrew Fastow, is charged with conspiracy and filing false tax forms for her role in some of her husband's deals to hide Enron's debt.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/enron (0 words)

	USATODAY.com - Contacts between Enron, Bush Cabinet detailed (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Enron and its auditor, Arthur Andersen, covered up the company's ills so top executives could profit at the expense of workers and stockholders, Sen.
		Enron, the nation's top energy trading company, filed for bankruptcy Dec. 2 after disclosing that it had been using accounting tricks to hide debt and overstate earnings.
		Levin said Enron was aided in its deception by the millions of dollars in political contributions and lobbying fees that it had spread around Washington.
	www.usatoday.com /money/energy/2002-01-14-enron.htm (533 words)

	Learn more about Timeline of the Enron scandal in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		March 17, 2003 Merrill Lynch, its four former executives and SEC agree to settle the Enron security fraud case for $80 million.
		November 5, 2003 Voters in the Portland, Oregon metro area defeat a measure that would begin the process of converting Enron subsidiary PGE into a PUD, after both local utility companies, Portland General Electric and PacifiCorp, spend $1.9 million dollars on advertisements to defeat the measure.
		November 18, 2003 Enron announced that it was selling its subsidiary PGE to a group of investors headed by former Oregon governor Neil Goldschmidt and funded by Texas Pacific Group for $2.35 billion.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /t/ti/timeline_of_the_enron_scandal.html (1757 words)

	Timeline of the enron scandal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timeline_of_the_enron_scandal (200 words)

	Business News - The Enron Trial - New York Times
		The Enron verdicts were, at best, the end of the beginning of this dispiriting corporate crime wave.
		The former Enron chief sold millions in stock because of demands from his brokers, not because of a lack of faith in the company, a finance expert testified.
		The drama unfolding at the Enron trial includes all the elements of tragedy, with tales spun of spousal lies, family betrayals and shattered friendships.
	nytimes.com /business/businessspecial3/?excamp=GGBUenron (1997 words)

	THE ENRON SCANDAL
		Enron was built with $7 billion (with a "b") of your tax dollars.
		ENRON continued to shred documents long after the court order forbidding the destruction of documents.
		If ENRON were to force the major banking houses, which were major holders of the stock, into bankruptcy, as happened with K-Mart, the stage would be set for the "legal" transformation of the United States into the greatest dictatorship the world has ever known.
	www.whatreallyhappened.com /enron.html (2230 words)

	Enron
		April 2006 -- Keller Rohrback announces Preliminary Approval of the $37.5 million dollar Enron Partial Settlement (plus interest, less attorneys’ fees and costs) to pay claims to all persons who were participants or beneficiaries in the Plans during the period from January 1, 1995 through December 2, 2001 (“Class Period”).
		Latest: Despite Enron's opposition, arguing releasing the funds would deplete its insurance reserves, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Arthur Gonzalez in New York authorized Enron's insurance companies to release $85 million to partially settle more than $3 billion in pension fund claims stemming from the 2001 collapse.
		Approximately 20,000 current and former Enron Corp. employees who lost money in their retirement plans when the company collapsed in late 2001 will participate in an $85 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit.
	www.kellersettlements.com /enron.html (994 words)

	Enron: TrialWatch
		They evaluated the meaning of the 24-year sentence received by former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling, and addressed broader issues of fairness, in particular the disparity of sentencing brought about by deal-making in federal court.
		"The investigation into Enron's collapse was conducted by the Enron Task Force, a team of federal prosecutors supervised by the Justice Department's Criminal Division and Special Agents from the FBI and IRS Criminal Investigation.
		The Department of Justice says it is filing a civil forfeiture action against the estate of former Enron Chairman Ken Lay to recover what it says are proceeds of the fraud proven in the criminal case against Lay.
	blogs.chron.com /enrontrialwatch (601 words)

	Enron
		The recent collapse of the Houston-based energy giant Enron has virtually all the ingredients for scandal in Washington and then some.
		Enron’s PAC and its employees contributed $114,000 to Bush during the 2000 campaign, while former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay served as one of Bush’s Pioneers, individuals who raised at least $100,000 for the campaign.
		While Enron’s giving was concentrated mainly in big soft money gifts to the national political parties, Andersen’s generosity often was targeted directly at members of Congress.
	www.opensecrets.org /news/enron/index.asp (421 words)

	Enron - Salon
		At a memorial service for the Enron chairman, a local pastor equates Lay's prosection to the gruesome murder of an African-American man.
		Why Enron is George Bush's scandal, not Bill Clinton's.
		The former Enron chairman spins his story as his trial date nears.
	dir.salon.com /topics/enron/index.html (294 words)

	The ENRON Fraud \| Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP
		Andrew Fastow, Enron’s now-imprisoned former finance chief, testified that many of the banks’ transactions were contrived, deceptive deals done solely to create the false appearance of profits and cash flow.
		Internal Enron documents and testimony of bank employees detailed how the banks engineered sham transactions to keep billions of dollars of debt off Enron’s balance sheet and create the illusion of increasing earnings and operating cash flow.
		Barclays entered into several sham transactions with Enron, including creating a “special purpose entity” called Colonnade, a shell company to hide Enron’s debt, named after the street in London where the bank is headquartered.
	www.enronfraud.com (981 words)

	Enron Emails
		This project started when a large customer asked InBoxer whether it would be possible to use our language technology to scan outbound mail for potential problems.
		It released a database of hundreds of thousands of Enron emails to the public.
		And, while they did it to allow the world to see the culture that allowed for what the Department of Justice called "a criminal conspiracy to commit one of the largest corporate frauds in American history,” it really helped us.
	www.enronemail.com (718 words)

	Enron Creditors Recovery Corp. - Home
		Enron Creditors Recovery Corp.'s sole mission is to reorganize and liquidate the remaining operations and assets of Enron following one of the largest and most complex bankruptcies in U.S. history.
		Enron Creditors Recovery Corp. recently distributed more than $1 billion to creditors, bringing the total amount recovered to date to $14.558 billion.
		These filings, which can be viewed here, outline Citigroup's substantial involvement in the Enron fraud, including e-mails exchanged between Citigroup employees, which can be viewed in the new key evidence section.
	www.enron.com (395 words)

	Enron Traders Caught On Tape, Tapes Obtained By CBS Confirm Enron Role In Western Power Crisis - CBS News
		Angry lawmakers were quick to call for action after hearing audiotapes of Enron traders bragging about manipulating the West Coast energy market, Vince Gonzales reports.
		Four years after California's disastrous experiment with energy deregulation, Enron energy traders can be heard — on audiotapes obtained by CBS News — gloating and praising each other as they helped bring on, and cash-in on, the Western power crisis.
		The tapes, from Enron's West Coast trading desk, also confirm what CBS reported years ago: that in secret deals with power producers, traders deliberately drove up prices by ordering power plants shut down.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/06/01/eveningnews/main620626.shtml (752 words)

	TIME: Behind the Enron Scandal
		Enron's demise was just the shove KMART didn't need — especially after Sept. 11th
		The Enron mess may revive a tough question: Whose side is this President on?
		Inside the growing Enron scandal: how evidence was shredded and top executives fished for a bailout as the company imploded
	www.time.com /time/2002/enron (395 words)

	FindLaw Legal News: Special Coverage: Enron
		A former treasurer of Enron Corp. has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges that he misled national credit-grading agencies beginning in 1998 in a doomed effort to keep the energy company afloat.
		Financial Oversight of Enron: The SEC and Private-Sector Watchdogs (Nov. 8, 2002)
		Enron Operations Corp., Enron Ventures Corp. and Thomas E. White Jr.
	news.findlaw.com /legalnews/lit/enron (0 words)

	LLRX.com - The Collapse of Enron: A Bibliography of Online Legal, Government and Legislative Resources - Updated
		Enron Reorganization - Chapter 11 Document Repository (From e-Law, free full-text copies of all documents filed with the court listed chronologically.
		Testimony Concerning the Enron Bankruptcy, the functioning of Energy Markets and Repeal of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 by Isaac C. Hunt, Jr.
		Enron And Dynegy Announce Settlement Of Merger-Related Litigation (8/15/02)
	www.llrx.com /features/enron.htm (3281 words)

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