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Kenny Boy Pontificates	quixotic_Choux	05/25/06
Ken Lay was found guilty today of conspiracy and faces a a 10 to 15 year prison sentence. We all know of the collapse of Enron. "I firmly believe I'm innocent of the charges against me," Lay said following the hearing. "We believe that God in fact is in control and indeed he does work all things for good for those who love the lord." bwahaha haha haha ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ How long can religious extremists go supporting those who give lip service to God while stealing everything they come in contact blind???
Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 05/28/06 10:07 am: Kenny boy covered all bases . -"Former Enron officials said an important part of their strategy to win favor with the Gore campaign was a significant increase in the company's donations to Democrats." In 1999 and 2000, the company gave $362,000 in soft-money donations to Democrats. (Richard L. Berke, "Enron Pursued Plan To Forge Close Ties To Gore Campaign," The New York Times, February 18, 2002) -"In what one Enron official recalled as a desire to 'have Enron's message become part of the energy and telecom policy of the Gore campaign,' Enron organized a dinner in the private Nest Lounge of the Willard Hotel, two blocks from the White House, that included top Gore and Enron officials as well as executives in the high-tech industry." (Richard L. Berke, "Enron Pursued Plan To Forge Close Ties To Gore Campaign," The New York Times, February 18, 2002) - "As Ms. Painter was planning more public interaction between Enron and Gore officials, Enron officials said, Mr. Shapiro worked behind the scenes to hire people close to Mr. Gore. In the summer of 2000, they said, Mr. Shapiro wanted to hire Johnny Hayes, one of Mr. Gore's closest friends and top fund-raisers in Nashville. But Mr. Shapiro could not hire Mr. Hayes because he was already on the Gore campaign's payroll. After the campaign, Enron hired Mr. Hayes as a lobbyist." (Richard L. Berke, "Enron Pursued Plan To Forge Close Ties To Gore Campaign," The New York Times, February 18, 2002) -"Records show Enron paid large sums to enlist the lobbying aid of former Tennessee Valley Authority Director Johnny Hayes and another Tennessee friend of former Vice President Al Gore. Enron paid $200,000 to Sideview Partners Inc., a company headed by Mr. Hayes, for lobby work involving TVA earlier this year, according to Mr. Hayes' midyear 2001 lobby activities report." Enron also paid $500,000 to the Nashville law firm of Charles Bone, another longtime Gore friend and fund-raiser. "Also registered to lobby on behalf of Enron this year was former Vice President Gore's former chief of staff, Jack Quinn. Disclosure reports for the first half of 2001 indicate Mr. Quinn's lobbying firm, Quinn, Gillespie $10,000." (Andy Sher, "Ex-TVA Director, Gore Friend Got Large Sums To Aid Enron," Chattanooga Times/Chattanooga Free Press, December 7, 2001) - "Several senior Enron officials spent election night at Vice President Gore's headquarters in Nashville." (Dan Morgan, "Enron Also Courted Democrats," The Washington Post, January 13, 2002) As you see ;had Gore won in 2000 Enron officials would've been prominent in the Gore WhiteHouse also . Heck ;they practically crafted by themselves Gore's obsessive positions on Global warming . They gave $420,000 just to help to try to get Kyoto passed . Clinton's Energy Department and Environmental Protection Agency "often made themselves available for Enron executives to discuss the firm's needs. Btw ;of course they were part of the Energy Task force headed by Cheney . At the time they were major players in the US energy indusrty with remarkable growth during the Clintoon 1990s .
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tomder55		05/27/06
Time for some splainin the facts .The dirty deeds at Enron happened under the Clintonoid(which rhymes with hemorroid ) watch . It is the Bush justice dept. that is bringing the Enron principles to justice. comprende ? Kenny boy was such a favorite at the Clintoon white house that when Ron Brown's plane crashed ENRON stock started to plummet because of rumors of Lay being on the jet with Brown.'In 1992, Enron donated $100,000 to Clinton's inauguration, and Ken Lay, stayed at the White House 11 times.' NewsMax summed up the corrupt relationship nicely : Enron executives traveled with Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown in 1994 on trade missions to Russia, India, Indonesia and China, cutting U.S. taxpayer-financed deals in each country. In fact, Brown paid a great deal of attention to Enron. Indonesia was pressed by Clinton's secretary of commerce to accept Enron deals laced with corruption. Enron's most twisted activities involve a 1994 trade trip to Indonesia with then-Commerce Secretary Brown. Immediately after traveling to Indonesia, Brown personally sought approval for Enron electric power plants sponsored by U.S. funding. The documents show that the Clinton administration knew the deals were also filled with kickbacks for Indonesian president Suharto. read the rest . I only pasted a small part of the link . -ON JULY 5, 1995, Enron Corporation donated $100,000 to the Democratic National Committee. Six days later, Enron executives were on a trade mission with Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor to Bosnia and Croatia. With Kantor's support, Enron signed a $100 million contract to build a 150-megawatt power plant. -According to a study by the Center for Public Integrity, Enron, U.S. West, GTE, McDonnell Douglas, and Fluor donated a combined $563,000 to the Democratic party during 1993 and 1994 and received $2.6 billion in foreign contracts secured with government help. The Globe found that during the first Clinton term, 27 firms had donated $2.3 million to the Democrats and received nearly $5.5 billion in federal support. -Ken Lay was a close friend of Mack McLarty, Clinton's first chief of staff. -In his 1993 disclosure statement, Robert Rubin listed Enron as one of the firms with which he had had "significant contact" while at Goldman Sachs. Enron was represented by the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss,Hauer & Feld, the firm where Clinton advisers Robert Strauss and Vernon Jordan worked. In other words ;what everyone claims is a special relationship between this Admnistration and Halliburton was in fact the case between Bubba and Enron . To sum it up ....Enrongate is a democrat scandal.

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