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A little later today I will.
But in the end, I couldn't prove that
The quality is great and the customers like this,
I guess it all came crashing down on him.
now there is none.
The truth was that Enron was just struggling
involved the misappropriation of moneys by two traders.
under the United States Constitution.
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buy recommendation and loves us at the same time
It was something new.
but we're managing them.
I mean every one was so excited and then came the champagne
Enron is a company...
You know, that's a whole 'nother ball of wax
Main Street here and all throughout the city
The year-long energy crisis would cost
will help people memorize lists.
and let them just have a quote free market
Mr. Skilling a massive earthquake
Arthur Andersen,
make phone calls for Ken Lay.
If you think of the banks involved Chase,
for any of us involved.'
You know, we can sit and think about what strange insecurities
and pensions and then it peaked.
really shouldn't get involved. This is California's problem.
And there's this competition with the news...
and estimated how much they, the two rogue executives made
then it's a good thing he quit his day job
Government is the problem.
Because I had told him myself.
that we conduct as a company.
You know, you can gain the whole world
you know the staid pipeline in the ground and...
there were of evil people.
People pressured by the need to keep the stock price up
Get rid of them and you know what,
Not when they're exposed from the outside.
to a group of Merrill Lynch bankers.
the professor asked him if he was smart.
We were very close for many years.
kind of surreal day.
But how do you keep your wife
Let me interrupt you. Our chief financial officer
tapped to run the EES business.
not only took part in Enron's deceptive practices,
Can you believe that?
'oh, we didn't know anything.'
the authority and the resources to
His job was to cover up the fact
EES was headed for a crash landing.
And I was trying in the early days
Now, a high school student can figure out that.
while I was very young probably two, three years old.
I'm going to get the nine billion dollars
What I wish, I, you know, in retrospect?
in the Enron candy jar without an explicit
We know all of the California load.
with its bold move into broadband,
In the case of Cliff Baxter, the company's chief dealmaker
back that Enron,
financial condition.
calling publicly an investor an asshole? '
in California to give the state
Beyond the financial issues,
You know, I couldn't believe that
It's gone. It's gone.
Those guys at the flip of a switch
all the various lies and artifices
we would not have engaged in these transactions with Enron.
Well, you all did it again.
there was definitely a lot of excitement in the air.
great quarter and a great year in India.
And then it just started going down,
But in other places in the world, in India,
going through the various aspects of the company's business.
Indeed I think the worst of that's behind us.
You know, Where there was once great pride,
It's the fucking coolest thing I've done in a long time.
With the media hounding him
You must continue. Go on, please.
Morgan, Citibank
they could do it.
'Ask Why' and the sign said 'ask why asshole.'
It's very hard for me to talk about Cliff.
who ran the west coast trading desk.
a confidential memo surfaced revealing the names of
over there at the bank, George.
California's Electric Utilities
but they don't have to show the debt on the balance sheet.'
it was in the interest of the shareholders of the company.
there would be some things that I don't know
from smelling the strippers' perfume on you?
you're fucking the gas station attendant? '
When Jeff Skilling applied to Harvard Business School,
Enron's stock began to fall.
Damn expensive to the customers.
Go after him.'
which is, of course, exactly what happened.
We have traders here from Enron
The trips were legend.
every week you have to come up with new ideas.
Government is not the solution to our problem.
We're talking about a commodity that
We are the good guys. We are on the side of angels.
Is it your contention that you knew of it
When Enron announced its latest plan to trade weather,
But there was one episode, early on,
teaming up with Blockbuster to deliver movies on demand.
because people perceive it as a story
Lou Pai became the second largest landowner in Colorado.
and regulations of government.
You think so? I think.
A flurry of buy-outs in the corporate world...
and I feel like I'm being consumed by this company.'
you don't think it's accurate
sold the power at reasonable prices to consumers
And all we know is, they're always good.'
I can get out now and this company
but at times designed, advanced and profited from them.
The merger with PGE put Enron in the electricity business.
Very amiable, fun, man's man.
Muckleroy hopped on the next plane to New York.
That's our vision.
the news magazines have, where one says something good,
the people who are strong will stick around.
playing on Wall Street's greed,
Of course, we had blackouts in December.
If we shut it down,
Mr. Lay, do you have anything to say, sir?
in compensation, in stocks
and help her understand the questions that she was asking.
That what I was doing was, in fact,
very blunt would tell Skilling whatever
This manifested itself in trips that Jeff Skilling led
The ability for a 25 year old to go in
But he had one specific condition
What about Vincent and Elkins,
The auditors adamantly told Mr. Ken Lay
I can't for the life of me see what basis she
I think Jeff Skilling is really a tragic figure,
we could see the stock price double
I'd ever had with Jeff.
Andy put me in charge of this asset listing.
It is in Enron's best interest,
I, personally, am convinced
Instead, Enron sent a telex to Borget:
When you see two or three energy companies
or inappropriateness of the transactions
Ah... at this time there has been a suicide note located.
if they think it will get them to the trough sooner.'
that would be successful terminating 15 percent
ten times your original investment.
Behind Fastow's partnerships
Dave, old buddy, let me just tell you.
They had a very strained personal relationship
he knew what was coming.
by the way, everything is going to be just fine.
At the very moment Ken Lay was talking to employees,
because I thought,