White,ThomasE

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Thomas White was Secretary of the US Army in 2001-2002. During the summer of 2002 it was revealed, that Thomas E. White (former vice chairman of Enron->) was deeply involved in crooked accounting deals at the energy giant. Source: http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0210/S00052.htm

In October 2002, White sold off half his holdings, about $3.08 million in stock White, graduated from West Point in 1967 and went on to become a brigadier general. Along the way, he became a close friend of Colin Powell, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and now secretary of State. Powell recommended White for Army secretary. After he retired from the Army in 1990, White joined Enron. On March 10th, 2002, the New York Times revealed, that Defense Department inspectors are examining changes in bid requirements that helped the Enron Corporation win a $25 million Army contract to run the utility systems at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn, according to federal investigators. Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/10/business/10BID.html

? White had admitted having 84 phone calls or meetings with Enron officials after he became Army secretary in May 2001, most of them around the time of Enron's collapse. On July 18th, 2002, Newsday quoted Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who said she planned to question White about his role at Enron Energy Services, which had a contract to run the power systems at a military base in New York City. During Spring 2002, the Pentagon downplayed the dubious problems of White. Instead, in April 2002, the Pentagon started to investigate on an inane case: White used a military plane for a trip to Colorado during which he finalized the sale of an Aspen home. White made $12 million from selling ENRON shares.