Monthly Archives: March 2008
Enron Ethics
It makes me happy to remember the company at its zenith. Watch and remember what a great company Enron truly was.
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Prosecutors Gone Wild: Bad Behavior In The Enron Trial
Having used the weekend to study the government’s reply to Jeff Skilling’s supplemental brief, I am deeply comforted. The facts laid bare are emphatically in Skilling’s favor for overturned convictions. The main thrust of the government’s reply to Jeff Skilling’s Brady arguments seems to be … Continue reading
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Enron State: Red or Blue?
This weekend I read and even commented on a few of Loren Steffy’s Enron columns at the Chronicle, which is usually a waste of time. However, as I was perusing, I noticed something interesting. Come with me, won’t you, on an irony tangent. … Continue reading
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President Bush Nominates Two Dems To SEC (Angers One Former Fan)
President Bush is expected to nominate two Democrats to the fill empty seats on the SEC panel. Elisse Walter, former deputy director of the SEC’s corporation finance division, and Luis Aguilar, a former SEC lawyer, will be nominated for the … Continue reading
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Jeff Skilling Is Not An Architect
Thank you, President Bush, for distorting the meaning of the word ‘architect’. Thanks to calling Karl Rove the ‘architect’ of your 2006 re-election, there is a strange patina of negativity in the word, which I picked up again while watching a video of … Continue reading
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First They Came For Arthur Andersen…
I had to double check all my calendars today because I’m starting to feel like it’s 2001 all over again. The culprit of the moment is this New York Times article which states: A sweeping five-month investigation into the collapse of … Continue reading
Government Reply To Skilling Brief: Yeah, So What?
At close of business today, Chron posted its report on the government’s reply to Jeff Skilling’s supplemental brief. Though I can’t find the original brief, I think it’s pretty clear from the report that I was exactly right when I … Continue reading
Deadline For Government’s Reply To Skilling
I am on the edge of my seat waiting to see the government’s reply to Jeff Skilling’s Supplemental Brief, which, of course, contained unsealed Fastow Notes excerpts and effectively proved the prosecution to be as corrupt as a Nevada gaming commissioner. … Continue reading
Blogging Skilling
Remember the kerfuffle caused in the middle of the 2004 election when CBS ran a story about the un-verified documents regarding President Bush’s Texas Air National Guard service? The right-wing blogosphere was immediately on mission to investigate and ultimately discredit … Continue reading
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Today In Enron History: Banks Are Not Liable For Client Company Failures
On March 19, 2007, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an important decision in the Enron securities class-action litigation. The court ruled that Enron Corp. shareholders could not proceed with a class-action lawsuit against investment banks for their … Continue reading
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World Opinion Shifting On Skilling Guilt
Economist has a wonderful article about Jeff Skilling’s innocence. For the fifteen months he has been in prison (and actually far longer than that), most people have the distorted view that Skilling is the Guiltiest Man In America. Now this uninformed opinion may be reconsidered … Continue reading
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Appeals Court Opens Door For Possible New Broadband Trial
Mary Flood and Kristen Hays writing for the Houston Chronicle report that three former Enron broadband unit executives could be headed back to trial on multiple charges after a federal court today denied their appeal. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court … Continue reading
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