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01-16-2008, 12:47 PM
Watch Enron: Smartest Guys in the Room for the details of Bush I & II connections to Kenneth Lay and Enron. They stretch back to GW as governor, and include Bush making personalized video messages to Enron employees at the behest of Lay.
Furthermore, understand, as documented in this movie, that the major banks, including JPM, were complicit in and profited from the Enron schemes. It was the biggest corporate bankruptcy in history, and it was all a scam.
Timeline: 2001
Aug. 14: Kenneth Lay takes over as CEO after Jeffrey Skilling resigns for personal reasons. Jeffrey Skilling had helped transform the company from a natural gas pipeline company to a global marketer and trader of energy.
Oct. 20: A report filed with the Internal Revenue Service reveals that a political group allied with House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) raised nearly $500,000. The Republican Majority Issues Committee (RMIC) was required to show, for the first time, how it raises and spends its money. One of the committee's largest donations included Enron's $50,000.
Oct. 22: Enron acknowledges a Securities and Exchange Commission inquiry into a possible conflict of interest related to the company's dealings with the partnerships. Shares of Enron sank more than 20 percent on the news.
Oct. 24: Enron ousts CFO Andrew Fastow.
Oct. 31: Enron announces that the SEC inquiry has been upgraded to a formal investigation.
September 11th, 2001-- WTC Building 7 Destroyed Mysteriously-- Contained Information/Files Related to Ongoing SEC Investigations.
Dec. 2: Enron, once one of the world's largest electricity and natural gas traders, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Furthermore, understand, as documented in this movie, that the major banks, including JPM, were complicit in and profited from the Enron schemes. It was the biggest corporate bankruptcy in history, and it was all a scam.
Timeline: 2001
Aug. 14: Kenneth Lay takes over as CEO after Jeffrey Skilling resigns for personal reasons. Jeffrey Skilling had helped transform the company from a natural gas pipeline company to a global marketer and trader of energy.
Oct. 20: A report filed with the Internal Revenue Service reveals that a political group allied with House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) raised nearly $500,000. The Republican Majority Issues Committee (RMIC) was required to show, for the first time, how it raises and spends its money. One of the committee's largest donations included Enron's $50,000.
Oct. 22: Enron acknowledges a Securities and Exchange Commission inquiry into a possible conflict of interest related to the company's dealings with the partnerships. Shares of Enron sank more than 20 percent on the news.
Oct. 24: Enron ousts CFO Andrew Fastow.
Oct. 31: Enron announces that the SEC inquiry has been upgraded to a formal investigation.
September 11th, 2001-- WTC Building 7 Destroyed Mysteriously-- Contained Information/Files Related to Ongoing SEC Investigations.
Dec. 2: Enron, once one of the world's largest electricity and natural gas traders, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.