Enron

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Former energy giant ENRON made big news worldwide, only a few weeks after the September 11th attack, when many journalists came to the conclusion, that the US government knew already in August 2001 on the pending bancrupcy. On November 8th, 2001, the company disclosed that it had overstated earnings dating back to 1997 by almost $600 million. 

That same day, an e-mail ("Importance: High"), whose sender and recipient are blacked out, warned, "President Bush cannot talk about Dabhol as was already mentioned." The memo said, that Bush economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey could not discuss Enron either. Lindsey had been an Enron consultant.

This started a long debate on the connections between ENRON and the US Government, the "rigged election" of President Bush, the ties to UNOCAL(->), military business, deals with India, CIA connections, many small hidden scandals and even a Taliban connection. More on President Bush-ENRON ties at:  

The Guardian UK became one of the few mainstream specialists of the complete ENRON story. They reported, that ENRON's testosterone-fuelled traders were fixtures in Houston's strip clubs. "One division of the company spent $2m a year on flowers alone. And its executives used the firm's corporate jets as taxis." Another specialist, Robert Bryce (->) described in a 2002 book on ENRON "the heady mix of greed, sex and arrogance that produced America's most spectacular financial scandal" 
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,825351,00.html

"When Enron needed cash, the company's chief financial officer had just the answer: a web of companies that would keep the firm's liabilities off its books and make him rich." 
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,830137,00.html

In the final extract of his book, Robert Bryce described how the firm bought its way into Washington's corridors of power. http://www.guardian.co.uk/enron/story/0,11337,834484,00.html (See Bryce,Robert) 

One of ENRONs most important executives, was Herbert "Pug" Winokur, who is on the board of Dyncorp: 
DynCorp is a CIA sponsored company, once directed by ex-CIA director Woolsey,James (See Wolfowitz Cabal) 
In 1997, Enron announced plans to link Dabhol, India to the Hazira terminal of the of the so called HBJ pipeline.
Enron said they were going to add to about 1500 miles to the HBJ pipeline. Costs: $300 million and $900 million, respectively.
Enron had a $3 billion investment in the Dabhol power plant, near Bombay on India's west coast. The project began in 1992, and the liquefied natural gaspowered plant was supposed to supply energy- hungry India with about one-fifth of its energy needs by 1997. It was one of Enron's largest development projects ever (and the single largest direct foreign investment in India's history).

The company owned 65 percent of Dabhol; the other partners were Bechtel, General Electric and State Electricity Board. In March 2002, Raghu Dhar of Zee TV, business editor of India's largest television network confirmed in the CBS - "60 Minutes"-show, how "Enron offered to pay him $1 million a year to be its corporate communications chief in an effort to silence his criticism of its plan to build a $3 billion power plant there." (See Bustani,Jose)
"...The plant would run on liquefied natural gas shipped by tanker from the Middle East, a prospect many considered odd because India has lots of coal, a much cheaper and common fuel it has traditionally used to generate electricity. It turns out Enron was going to buy the natural gas from one of its own subsidiaries. Moreover, the central Indian government would assume essentially all risks in the venture, assuring Enron a 25 percent return on its investment." 
Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/04/11/60minutes/main505913.shtml

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