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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... AGW Believers, Enron Would Still Be In Business « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE Kenneth Lay answering an analyst’s question on August 14, 2001, as quoted in Wikipedia: There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues. I think I can honestly say that the company is probably in the strongest and best shape that...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... its effects just happen to be more pernicious there. When a highly paid rogue CEO such as Enron's Kenneth Lay or WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers creates or condones a culture of deception in a misguided effort to boost their firm's stock price, the consequences for the employees and stock-holders of the company can be severe. And when a Wall Street CEO levers up their firm's equity capital 30 or...
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SimoleonSense (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... its effects just happen to be more pernicious there. When a highly paid rogue CEO such as Enron’s Kenneth Lay or WorldCom’s Bernie Ebbers creates or condones a culture of deception in a misguided effort to boost their firm’s stock price, the consequences for the employees and stock-holders of the company can be severe. And when a Wall Street CEO levers up their firm’s equity capital 30 or...
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Kiko's House (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... in just 15 years . Enron's success can be attributed to two things -- an elaborate scam built on lies about its profits and level of debt and cheek-to-jowl involvement in a Washington culture with regulations so complex that it was able to hoodwink everyone while scratching the backs and fattening the campaign war chests of compliant politicians. Enron's collapse in October 2001 resulted...
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Seventy, and rising . . . (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... of the officials of that organization as we have the ex - chairman and ex - CEO Messrs. Lay and Skilling, with anticipation that some employees were warned by...
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I Luw Fashion - Men's Fashion Blog / Men's Style (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... own dreams and imagination – sort of like the Ponzi scheme extraordinaire Bernard Maddof or Kenneth Lay, who cooked the books at Enron until they boiled over and subsequently brought company of 22,000 employees to a bafflingly epic demise that deeply shook the Dow Jones and Nasdaq stock exchange. Both fraudsters, now serving jail time, have left permanent scars reminding us all that...
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Horserace (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
... into office... Hmmm just so much good motivational news and Madoff is in JAIL? Should have had Kenneth Lay, whose death is still a mystery and whose ashes have no way of determining the DNA if it really is him... Of course, we remember Enron...and the close friends of those Texas years and running for President for Bush...Hope he remembers to mention all his pals...not the least of which...