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  CNN.com - Ex-Enron exec: Shredding went on after probe began - January 22, 2002
Castaneda, who was laid off this month as Enron's director of foreign exchange and sovereign risk, spoke Tuesday with CNN's Jack Cafferty.
CASTANEDA: What I was told when they were doing it was that they were selling off the Enron international assets to investors.
CASTANEDA: Well, you know, there was a lot of arrogance in the company.
archives.cnn.com /2002/LAW/01/22/castaneda.cnna.cnna/index.html   (766 words)

  
  Panel subpoenas Andersen officials; probes shredding claims
Castaneda, the former director of Enron's foreign investments section who was recently laid off by the company, said the shredding was done in an accounting office on the 19th floor of the company's Houston headquarters.
Castaneda says she became suspicious of the activity at Enron because of a pair of late-October e-mails from the corporate attorney reiterating company policy forbidding document shredding.
Castaneda says the destruction of papers was continuing when she left the firm earlier this month.
www.chinadaily.com.cn /en/doc/2002-01/23/content_103366.htm   (991 words)

  
 CNN.com - Enron posts guards to stop shredding - January 22, 2002
Former executive Maureen Castaneda said Monday employees were shredding documents as late as January 14, in spite of the company's December bankruptcy filing that costs thousands of investors and employees their life savings.
Castaneda said she took boxes of shredded paper home with her to use as packing material.
Castaneda told CNN on Tuesday that her former employer had become arrogant.
cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /2002/LAW/01/22/enron/index.html   (900 words)

  
 Hürriyetim   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Maureen Castaneda, kutularla belge parçalandýðýný kaydederek, yýrtýlmýþ parçalarda bile ‘‘gizli’’ damgalarýnýn açýkça görüldüðünü ifade etti.
Castaneda, bir kutu parçalanmýþ belgeyi aldýðýný da söyledi.
Maureen Castaneda, bazý belgelerin Enron'un gizli ortaklýklarýyla ilgili olduðunu da kaydetti.
www.hurriyetim.com.tr /newsprinterversion/1,,,00.html?sid=315&arsivim=&news_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ehurriyetim%2Ecom%2Etr%2Fhaber%2F0%2C%2Cnvid%7E144182%2C00%2Easp&title=Enron+iflas%FDnda+evrak+yok+etme+skandal%FD&nvid=144182   (522 words)

  
 Behind the Name: View Comments
Maureen Connolly was a tennis champion and is in the Tennis Hall of Fame.
Maureen Johnson, the ecletic and wild character from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway Musical RENT by Jonathan Larson.
Of all the real-life Maureens I've met, she's still the one that sticks out the most in my head and the first one that comes to mind.
www.behindthename.com /comment/view.php?name=maureen&type=bear   (184 words)

  
 ENRON
Castaneda said that employees in Enron's accounting department, which had offices across the hall from her own on the 19th floor of an Enron office tower, collected about 15 boxes of documents after Thanksgiving.
Castaneda said, and later noticed that shredded paper was accumulating in trash bins.
Castaneda said that she collected a box of shredded documents at the suggestion of G. Paul Howes, an investigator for the law firm of Milberg Weiss Hynes Bershad and Lerach, which has filed a suit against Enron and its officers and directors on behalf of investors.
www.shockandawe.us /archives/Enron/020122b.htm   (1573 words)

  
 HoustonChronicle.com - Judge wants parties to craft plan to stop shredding documents
Castaneda said Monday she witnessed the mass shredding of financial documents at the energy company's accounting office, a practice that began around Thanksgiving and continued through at least last week.
Castaneda, Enron's former director of foreign exchange, had turned over to her lawyer several boxes containing mounds of shredded documents dated from November and December.
Castaneda said the shredding continued through her final day on the job last week and that she used paper-filled boxes she found in the hallway to pack her belongings.
www.chron.com /cs/CDA/story.hts/topstory2/1220734   (1439 words)

  
 Boston.com / Latest News / Business
Maureen Raymond Castaneda, who was laid off as Enron's director of foreign exchange and sovereign risk, told Howes the "gather-review-shred" process started Oct. 31, when the Securities and Exchange Commission announced a formal investigation into Enron finances, and continued through at least Jan. 14.
Castaneda confirmed she saw at least two such e-mails from Enron general counsel James Derrick.
Lerach said Castaneda took some boxes of shredded documents home, intending to use them as packing material as she moved to a more affordable house.
www.boston.com /news/daily/22/enron.htm   (477 words)

  
 CNN.com - Ex-Enron exec: Shredding went on after probe began - January 22, 2002
Castaneda, who was laid off this month as Enron's director of foreign exchange and sovereign risk, spoke Tuesday with CNN's Jack Cafferty.
CASTANEDA: What I was told when they were doing it was that they were selling off the Enron international assets to investors.
CASTANEDA: Well, it's heartbreaking because the [senior citizens] who put their money -- who believed in Enron, who -- the pensioners who lost their money.
www.cnn.com /2002/LAW/01/22/castaneda.cnna.cnna/index.html   (766 words)

  
 Salon Newsreal | A Yankee way of knowledge
As a matter of fact, the last time I thought about Carlos Castaneda, after the previous years I hadn't thought about him, was at a party in Mill Valley, Calif., in the early '80s.
Maybe he was the genuine Castaneda, acting like a con man to teach us a lesson, and the two women were spiritual guides from a separate reality.
I guess the news of Castaneda's demise hadn't precipitated a rush for his output.
www.salonmagazine.com /news/1998/06/24news.html   (965 words)

  
 Guardian | Enron shredding continuing, claims worker
In interviews with ABC and the Wall Street Journal, Ms Castaneda, whose office was across from the accounting department on the 19th floor, said shredding of documents apparently continued through the middle of January, when she left the company after losing her job.
According to Ms Castaneda and another employee, the shredded documents appeared to be connected to controversial partnerships used by Enron to camouflage debts and inflate profits.
Ms Castaneda, who said she had planned to use the shredded paper for packing material, is a plaintiff in one of the dozens of employee and shareholder suits against Enron.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4340613-110384,00.html   (518 words)

  
 Is Enron Still Shredding Documents?
Maureen Castaneda, the former director of Enron's foreign investments section, said the shredding was done in an accounting office on the 19th floor of the company's Houston headquarters.
Castaneda said she discovered the shredded documents when she was cleaning out her office and looking for packing material.
She showed ABCNEWS boxes full of shredded documents dated from November and December, which she found in the hallway.
www.rense.com /general19/still.htm   (487 words)

  
 Bij Enron draaide de versnipperaar door - 23 Jan 2002
Volgens de geïnterviewde Maureen Castaneda, voormalig directeur buitenlandse investeringen van het energieconcern, stond de ’shredder’ op de negentiende verdieping van het Enron-hoofdkantoor in Houston.
Ik heb geen idee of dat nu ook nog het geval is".
Castaneda liet ABC een doos vol papiersnippers zien.
www.accountingweb.nl /cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=69767&d=101   (342 words)

  
 It gets worse - Enron themselves shredding documents - Asylum Forums
A former Enron executive, Maureen Castaneda, says the shredding of documents at Enron began after Thanksgiving on the 19th floor in an accounting office and continued through at least mid-January, G. Paul Howes, another attorney involved in the class-action lawsuit by investors against Enron, said in court papers being filed Tuesday in Houston.
In an on-air interview Monday with ABC News, Castaneda, the former Enron executive, displayed one box of the shredded material which she said, ''I got...
Howes said Castaneda was laid off from her job as a project manager on Jan. 18 and in the weeks just prior to her departure ''there was an increase in the volume of shredding.''
www.asylumnation.com /asylum/_r/showthread/threadid_19631/index.html   (807 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Enron accused of more shredding   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
ABC News via AP Former Enron executive Maureen Castaneda with documents that Enron allegedly shredded.
The documents were received from Maureen Castaneda, who was laid off in mid-January, according to the declaration that the attorney plans to file.
Howes said Castaneda told him that boxes of documents had been stored in the corporate accounting area of the 19th floor of Enron's headquarters in Houston.
www.usatoday.com /money/energy/2002-01-21-enron-shred.htm   (344 words)

  
 In this scandal, powerful women play starring roles / Unlike past messes, Enron debacle, so far, has nothing to do with ...
Maureen Castaneda, a former Enron executive, last week went public with allegations of large-scale document shredding at Enron and provided actual proof.
She had taken some of the shreds home to use as packing material, only to discover that they were marked with the names Chewco and Jedi, two of Enron's legally questionable partnerships.
Castaneda was director of foreign exchange and sovereign risk management.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/01/27/MN136247.DTL   (1209 words)

  
 Enron looks into reported destruction of documents at Houston headquarters
Enron Corp. is looking into the reported destruction of documents that allegedly took place at its Houston headquarters after the federal government began investigating the company, an attorney for the bankrupt energy giant said.
In an on-air interview Monday with ABC News, a former Enron executive, identified as Maureen Castaneda, said the shredding of documents took place in an accounting office on the 19th floor.
Castaneda said the destruction began in late November and continued to at least last week.
www.chinadaily.com.cn /en/doc/2002-01/22/content_103265.htm   (535 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Opinion - Comment - Eleanor Clift: Enron case highlights unhealthy intimacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
That sense of entitlement evidently led Enron employees to shred documents as recently as last week, according to a former Enron executive who told her story to congressional investigators.
Maureen Castañeda was laid off last week from her job as a manager in Enron’s foreign-accounts section.
She described seeing employees in the accounting section across the hall from her office shredding some 15 boxes of documents, beginning before Christmas, and continuing until last week.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /comment.cfm?id=83762002   (948 words)

  
 Enron 'shredding' dates back to December
As US financial watchdog the Securities & Exchange Commission launched its investigation, a former Enron executive identified as Maureen Castaneda, told US television network ABC she saw documents shredded in an accounting office on the 19th floor of the Houston office.
Incredibly, the shredded documents were then given to employees as packing material when they lost their jobs.
Castaneda told ABC: 'I left the second week in January, so the shredding was going on until I left and I have no idea if it continues,' she said.
avantgo.accountancyage.com /News/1127418   (226 words)

  
 elmundo.es - economia
Maureen Castaneda muestra en la ABC una caja con pedazos de documentos.
La ex directiva del departamento de inversiones extranjeras de Enron, identificada como Maureen Castaneda, exhibió una caja con pedazos de documentos que dijo que se llevó al dejar su trabajo "para utilizar como material de embalaje...
Castaneda agregó también que el proceso de destrucción de documentos comenzó a finales de noviembre y continuó hasta la pasada semana.
www.elmundo.es /elmundo/2002/01/22/economia/1011666389.html   (335 words)

  
 Maureen Castaneda -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Maureen Castaneda -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Maureen Castaneda was former director of (Click link for more info and facts about Enron Corporation) Enron Corporation’s foreign investments section.
On January 22, 2002 she stated that Enron had been shredding documents in its (The largest city in Texas; located in southeastern Texas near the Gulf of Mexico; site of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Houston headquarters the previous week.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Ma/Maureen_Castaneda.htm   (143 words)

  
 The Chanticleer: Volume 50, Issue 17: News
On Tuesday, the attorney representing investors, William Lerach, brought a box of shredded paper to the federal courthouse, saying that was the evidence Enron had provided to him.
Adding substance to his allegation, this week a former Enron manager, Maureen Castaneda, said the company was shredding documents as recently as last week.
Castaneda was an Enron official in charge of assessing risks in international business, such as foreign exchange fluctuations and unstable governments.
www.jsu.edu /chanticleer/vol50/news/5017news-enron.html   (650 words)

  
 Shawnee News-Star: Central Oklahoma's #1 news source! Enron accused of shredding papers; company investigates 01/22/02
Robert Bennett, an attorney representing Enron, issued a statement saying that Enron is investigating the reported destruction of documents that allegedly took place at its Houston headquarters over a period of seven weeks.
A former Enron executive, Maureen Castaneda, claims that the shredding of documents began after Thanksgiving on the 19th floor in an accounting office and continued through at least mid-January, G. Paul Howes, an attorney involved in a class-action lawsuit against Enron, said in court papers to be filed Tuesday.
In an on-air interview Monday with ABC, Castaneda displayed one box of the shredded material which she said, "I got...
www.news-star.com /stories/012202/new_68.shtml   (893 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The gang of four
When Fortune magazine writer Bethany McLean was the first in the US to pen the story "Is Enron over-valued?", asking, "How exactly does it make money?", she was attacked by company executives as an incompetent and dismissed as a "looker" (she was 31, and blonde) who didn't know how to read a balance sheet.
Former Enron executive Maureen Castaneda received her share of vitriol when she alerted authorities five weeks ago that the company, ordered last October to preserve every document, was still shredding confidential material in January.
While Enron's executives are subpoenaed to Washington for a tongue- lashing from Congress, Watkins, Lynch, Castaneda and McLean are being amply rewarded for their refusal to kowtow to pressure from the old boys network.
www.guardian.co.uk /enron/story/0,11337,652641,00.html   (1128 words)

  
 FBI takes charge of Enron HQ
In it, Maureen Raymond Castaneda, who was laid off last week as Enron's director of foreign exchange and sovereign risk, said a "gather-review-shred" process involving finance and accounting employees began on October 31, when the Securities and Exchange Commission announced a formal investigation into Enron's finances.
Lerach said Castaneda took boxes of shredded documents home, intending to use it as packing material.
She gave Lerach's team the shreds, which Howes said were clearly marked as related to the partnerships that led to the company's downfall.
www.news24.com /News24/AnanziArticle/0,,1518-24_1134429,00.html   (647 words)

  
 Hypocrites.com - Nothing To Hide? Enron Probing Document Destruction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
From Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Enron is looking into the reported destruction of documents that allegedly took place at its Houston headquarters after the federal government began investigating the company, an attorney for the bankrupt energy giant said Monday night.
In an on-air interview with ABC News, a former Enron executive, identified as Maureen Castaneda, said the shredding of documents took place in an accounting office on the 19th floor.
Castaneda displayed one box of the shredded material which ``I got...
www.hypocrites.com /modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=2849   (137 words)

  
 english.eastday.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Nearly two weeks have passed since a former executive, Maureen Castaneda, came forward with shredded papers from the company's accounting department that she said were destroyed as recently as mid-January.
Castaneda said the shredding this winter was methodical and frenetic.
Under normal circumstances, few companies destroy nearly as many records as their own policies call for, and that was the case at Andersen, according to former partners at the firm.
english.eastday.com /epublish/gb/paper9/71/class000900002/hwz54756.htm   (768 words)

  
 The Indian Express : Business   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Maureen Castaneda, a director in Enron’s foreign investments section, told ABC News that she witnessed the shredding of documents that began around Thanksgiving and continued at least until last week.
But Castaneda is the first to publicly claim that Enron itself destroyed relevant papers.
In addition, among the shredded documents were references to some of Enron’s controversial partnerships, the off-the-books arrangements whose losses helped trigger the largest corporate bankruptcy in US history.
www.indianexpress.com /ie20020123/bus7.html   (467 words)

  
 Media Research Center CyberAlert -- 02/08/2002 -- Don’t Let Patriotism Mar Olympics
2) "New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd hit on a simple truth today," NBC anchor Tom Brokaw trumpeted Wednesday night in devoting a story to her theme that in Enron "the dividing line between those who appear to be in the wrong and those trying to stop them" is "very clear.
Today's Maureen Dowd column in the New York Times lauding her as the natural star of the Enron movie.
Maureen Castaneda: "I thought the shredded material would be good packing material."
www.mrc.org /cyberalerts/2002/cyb20020208.asp   (3847 words)

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