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7/7/06 - CNN LARRY KING LIVE [ENRON]The Death of Ken Lay
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Liberal Slant - liberalslant@entermail.net
Smoking Gun in Enrongate - Let the impeachment begin?
Sun Jan 27 21:01:02 2002

Smoking Gun in Enrongate - Let the impeachment begin?
By : Mike Hersh - 01/24/02

Former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Curtis Hebert, Jr. is going
public with explosive allegations. Hebert says Enron CEO Ken Lay--the largest
contributor to George Walker Bush--made improper demands.

When Lay threatened that his close friend Bush, would fire Hebert unless he obeyed,
Hebert refused. Lay ordered Bush to fire Hebert, and Bush complied in August 2001.
Hebert has been on record about all of this for months, but he recently made a new,
even more explosive charge. Hebert says Bush also let Lay INTERVIEW him and
other candidates for FERC Chairman in the first place!

In a nutshell: Enron gave Bush $millions to sponsor his rise from a losing Candidate
for the US House to the "leader of the free world." In return, Bush gave Enron "hire
and fire" authority over the FERC, and performed other favors in return for money.
This directly and personally ties Bush to the Enrongate scandal in all its illegality.

Bush betrayed his oath to the American people when he let Ken Lay hand pick
regulatory watchdogs we entrusted to prevent the massive meltdown that cost
Americans $billions. This makes letting the fox guard the hen house look like
tender loving fiduciary care.

This is nothing new for Bush, who fired Texas Funeral Service Commission (TFSC)
director Eliza May in retaliation for her investigations of Service Corporation
International and its CEO Robert Waltrip. Waltrip--like Enron's Lay--is a longtime
Bush patron.

Bush lied under oath regarding this political quid-pro-quo, then he and SCI settled a
lawsuit to keep May quiet. Texas taxpayers picked up $155,000 of the hush money
tab, while SCI paid May the other $55,000, according to a Dallas Morning News
story published 11/09/2001. Texans know this scandal as "Funeralgate."

The Rule of Law requires that Bush testify under oath about Funeralgate, his and
his Brother John Ellis Bush's Votergate activities during the 2000 election in Florida,
and Enrongate. We already know George Walker Bush has an established pattern
of helping his friends and backers evade regulation and possibly even criminal
charges!

We must demand action now, because Enron and its accountants at Anderson have
been destroying evidence by the box-load. We must know what Bush did, and why
he did it.

Enrongate is not just a Bush scandal: this is a Republican scandal. Other top GOP
officials like VP Dick Cheney, White House advisor Karl Rove, House Leader Dick
Armey and Sen. Phil Gramm also helped Enron plunder and evade regulation.
They helped Enron rip off consumers, investors and employees.

Ignore Republican and media efforts to spin this as a business scandal or a bipartisan
scandal. This is not about the generous, but legal contributions Enron made: 73% to
Republicans, 27% to Democrats. This is a GOP political scandal because Republicans
helped Enron pay no taxes in four out of five years, while hiding profits in offshore
accounts. Despite the hype, no Democrat did anything of the sort.

Even with all these special favors, golden boy Ken Lay ran Enron into the ground.
Adding insult to injury, if not perfidy to perjury, the Republican "stimulus porkage"
aims to give Enron and Lay even MORE of your tax money.

This Republican scandal exposes GOP corruption at the highest levels, but more
profoundly, it reveals the bankruptcy of the GOP "government is the problem"
ideology. It blows the lid off Bush's Enronomics, and his plan to Enronitize Social
Security, energy and other policies.

I am currently working on another article concerning these fundamental failures in
Republican philosophy. For now, back to the immediate scandal. Already, Armey
and Gramm are quitting politics to escape Enrongate, but ending their careers to
enjoy tax-paid pensions may not be enough to satisfy justice and the Rule of Law.

These top Republicans--all outspoken critics of President Clinton's conduct in
office--should welcome full-scale investigations into their own apparent influence
pedaling. As should House Whip Tom DeLay, VP Cheney, George Walker
Bush, and other GOP leaders. As should Ken Lay, Sen. Gramm's wife
Wendy--a former regulator turned Enron board member.

If they broke the law, they should pay the penalty. That's been the Republican
mantra for nearly a decade. Let them prove they meant it by volunteering to testify
before the US Senate--under oath, on national television. If they're innocent, what
do they have to fear? They should welcome the opportunity to come clean or set t
he record straight.

Despite their nonstop pontificating about others' lacking accountability, I'm not
confident these Republicans will step up and do the right thing. We must take it
upon ourselves to demand justice and uphold the Rule of Law. Call the media and
your elected officials NOW to make sure they understand the real issues in
Enrongate, Funeralgate, and Votergate.

Let the investigations, perhaps even impeachment begin!

Mike Hersh is a contributing writer for Liberal Slant

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Smoking Gun in Enrongate
The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
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Early life and career



Lay was born into a poor family in Tyrone, Missouri. His father was a Baptist preacher and some-time tractor salesman. He has been described by his undergraduate classmates at the University of Missouri as industrious and high-minded, and served as president of the Zeta Phi chapter of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at the University of Missouri and got his doctorate in economics at University of Houston in 1970.

Lay worked in the early ‘70s as a federal energy regulator. By the Reagan administration, when energy was deregulated, Lay was already an energy company executive and he took advantage of the new climate by merging Houston Natural Gas Co. with Nebraska-based Inter-North.

Lay was one of America's best-paid CEOs, earning (for example) a $42.4 million compensation package in 1999.[1] Lay sold large amounts of his Enron stock in September and October of 2001 as its price fell, while encouraging employees to buy more stock, telling them the company would rebound. Lay liquidated more than $300 million in Enron stock from 1989 to 2001, mostly in stock options.

Lay maintained business and political ties to Republican goverment officials, hiring (for example) James Baker and Robert Mosbacher as they left the Cabinet of President George H. W. Bush (both men lobbied for Enron contracts in the wake of the First Gulf War). Lay was a supporter of Bush for Governor of Texas; in 1999, Bush signed a law deregulating Texas electric markets.[2] A Bush 'Pioneer,' Lay became one of the largest individual contributors to the Bush-Cheney 2000 presidential campaign: his donation history shows $651,760 to Republicans, $61,960 to Democrats, and $62,150 to special interests.[3] Lay served on the Bush-Cheney Transition Advisory Committee, and, according to Kurt Eichenwald's book Conspiracy of Fools, was nearly selected to be Secretary of the Treasury following Bush's victory in the 2000 U.S. presidential election. Ultimately Paul O'Neill was chosen for the position instead.

Houston dinner tables are buzzing with talk. Some Houston Jews say Mr. Fastow is being singled out for blame even more than former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay and CEO Jeffrey Skilling. Others see Mr. Fastow's prominence at Enron as a sign of just how far Jews have come in an oil town where memories of anti-Jewish discrimination are still fresh.Yet even as some Jews voice concern that the media is focusing unnecessarily on Mr. Fastow's Judaism, it appears that Mr. Fastow himself has been playing the religion card by directing calls to his rabbi, who has vouched for his moral character.


U.S.News Nation & World 2/18/02
'Conflicts come back to bite'
How an Enron director helped fund a deal that started the death spiral BY CHRISTOPHER H. SCHMITT
http://judicial-inc.biz/An_Enron_supplement.htm


REBECCA MARK-JUSBASCHE ----The $82 Million Woman
A Harvard Jewess had shot into prominence in 1991 when she persuaded Mr Kenneth L. Lay, till recently Enron's Chairman and CEO, to set up Enron Development Corporation to pursue overseas projects under her leadership.
On the widely published lists of high-ranking executives who made millions cashing out stock options, she's the first female name to show up; according to a court filing, she received $82.5 million from the sale of stock.
http://judicial-inc.biz/An_Enron_supplement.htm

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Friday January 18, 2002
Houston's Jewish community faces Enron fallout
JULIE WIENER
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
NEW YORK -- The Enron Corp. and Linda Lay, the wife of its chairman and chief executive, have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Houston's Holocaust museum, accounting for approximately 10 percent of the institution's $3 million budget.
FULL STORY:>>


Lays wife could be Jewish

ALTHOUGH the maiden name of Linda Lay is not known (she is the wife of Ken Lay, CEO of Enron -- the most costly scandal since WTC, and Actualité juive insists that neither she nor her husband is Jewish, she was the yearly biggest donor of the Houston Holocaust Museum.

Enron and the Lays were patrons of Houston's Jewish causes




Houston's Jewish community faces Enron fallout Faith - based court ruling not likely to rile Congress No peace until Arafat ousted
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If it has been documented that Sherron Watkins, 1) hand-delivered a detailed memo to Ken Lay that spelled out in expicit detail all of the accounting irregularities and fraud and 2) had a personal meeting to discuss this memo, how can Ken Lay say that he did not know what was going on at his company???? Especially, when he had the best accounting firm and law firm serving as his advisors....

See the story here http://www.apfn.org/enron/Sherron_watkins.htm

I think the prosecution simply needs to prove that Lay knew what was going on (as evidenced by the above) and that he lied to the investing public...It really should not be that difficult.

Posted by: Larry at March 13, 2006 06:48 PM

http://blogs.chron.com/enrontrialwatch/archives/2006/03/defense_chasing.html

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