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WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 - Tickets to all official inaugural events, including an "elegant" candlelight dinner with a special appearance by President Bush: $100,000. Tickets to all official inaugural events, two additional tickets to an "exclusive" lunch with Mr. Bush and Vice President Cheney, plus an all-access pass to any inaugural ball: $250,000. Telling your friends, "As I explained to the president just the other day... .": priceless. Mr. Bush's inaugural committee, seeking to raise more than $40 million, a record, sent out hundreds of solicitations to the president's biggest campaign contributors this week offering packages of party benefits and access...

Heinz-Kerry & Enron December 11, 1995: The H. John Heinz III Marital Trust purchased $250,001 - $500,000 in Enron stock. See John F. Kerry 1995 Senate personal financial disclosure. http://www.johnkerry.com/pdf/FD_95.pdf December 14, 1995: Teresa Heinz announces a $20 million grant to the Heinz Center in Washington, DC; Enron CEO Ken Lay will be among the Board members. Pittsbugh Post-Gazette, 12-15-1995: "The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment holds special significance for Teresa Heinz. ... 'This has been important to do for quite awhile. [Late Sen. John Heinz] was pushing it so hard, and this is...

Website posts emails from Teresa Heinz's non profit charity and the Kerry campaign. Incriminating emails show collusion between the charity and the Kerry campaign that violates FEC and IRS statutes. Newest emails released show how the Kerry campaign contacted the Heinz Foundation about Kerry's dinner with Ken Lay. Everyone from Stephanie Cutter, Kerry's communications director, to the President of the Heinz Center are involved. Dinner with Ken Lay emails and more are at: http://kerrywaffles.net/enron.html

Terasa (Terry) Heinz and Kenneth L. Lay, formerly of Enron, are both Trustees of "The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment," 1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 735, Washington, DC 20004.This foudation is required to file a non-profit tax return (IRS Form 990) part of which is available to the public. Forms 990 for the years 1997 through 2001 are available on the internet at "www.Guidestar.org".These reports indicate that Terry and Ken have had a professional relationship from at least 10/1/97 through 9/30/02. In fact, after years of reporting Houston as his address, the 990 for...

  Still in the Closet — Democrats Getting LayedJuly 15, 2004  “Outing” Democrats is such child’s play.  Surrounded by shards of the smashed cookie jar, Moore-ish-faced Democrats just keep pointing fingers...as they just keep chewing.  It’s like Teddy Kennedy supporting the Anti Saloon League.  But, since John Kerry believes that “The value of truth is one of the most central values in America”, let’s serve up some truth. In a never ending Democratic mantra, Kerry (yet again) blasted the President for failing to aggressively pursue Kenneth Lay.  As we all know from such unbiased media sources as the AP, “Lay clearly favored...

AP) John Edwards, the newly-named Democratic vice presidential candidate, suggested that President Bush's administration dragged its feet in prosecuting alleged "corporate crooks" such as former Enron chief executive Kenneth Lay. "It took three long years to see Ken Lay handcuffed and indicted for what he did," the North Carolina senator said Saturday in the weekly Democratic radio address. "In November, middle-class families will be able to rest assured that John Kerry will look out for their interests, restore corporate responsibility and put our economy back in line with our values." He said Kerry understands that families are struggling to stay...

DeLay's Corporate Fundraising Investigated Money Was Directed to Texas GOP to Help State Redistricting Effort By R. Jeffrey Smith Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, July 12, 2004; Page A01 In May 2001, Enron's top lobbyists in Washington advised the company chairman that then-House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) was pressing for a $100,000 contribution to his political action committee, in addition to the $250,000 the company had already pledged to the Republican Party that year. DeLay requested that the new donation come from "a combination of corporate and personal money from Enron's executives," with the understanding that it would be...

ENRON DOCUMENTS SHOW TOM DELAY'S REDISTRICTING EFFORTS... MORE... WASH POST PLANNING FRONT PAGE SPLASH, NEWSROOM SOURCES TELL DRUDGE. 3,200-WORD STORY...

WASH POST PLANNING ENTIRE ABOVE-FOLD FRONT PAGE SPLASH, NEWSROOM SOURCES TELL DRUDGE. 3,200-WORD STORY... // DeLay requested donation come from 'combination of corporate and personal money from Enron's executives,' with the understanding that it would be partly spent on "the redistricting effort in Texas," said the e-mail to Ken Lay... The e-mail, which surfaced in a subsequent federal probe of ENRON, is one of at least a dozen documents obtained by POST that show DeLay and his associates directed funds from corporations and Washington lobbyists to Republican campaign coffers... MORE...

Kerry's Attacks on Enron Draw Return FireBy ROBERT F. WORTHPublished: July 10, 2004 s Senator John Kerry accused the Bush administration yesterday of taking too long to indict the former Enron chief Kenneth L. Lay in the company's collapse, Republicans began a counterattack, gleefully pointing to the fact that Mr. Kerry's wife played host to Mr. Lay at their Washington home almost a year after his company collapsed.Mr. Lay attended a dinner at the Georgetown town house Teresa Heinz Kerry shares with her husband on Sept. 23, 2002, in connection with her philanthropic work related to her first husband. Mr....

Just on the Fox News Channel............. A Heinz-Kerry, Kenneth Lay, Enron connection. It seems that Kenneth Lay was not only a guest of John and Teraaazzzaaa at their Georgetown Mansion, BUT.....he was on the board of directors of the Heinz Foundation. In turn, Terrraaaazzza had over $250,000 in Enron stock. I wonder if we should tell Michael Moore ??? :-) Stay tuned. This could be interesting..........

Politics, ENRON, and the non-distorted truth By John David Powell The federal indictment of former ENRON honcho Ken Lay created another opportunity for Bush bashers to apply the broad brush of blame to the current administration for its association with the so-called crooked E. This eager quickness to tarnish every Republican for any involvement with ENRON provides an equal opportunity to point out some details certain folks would rather suppress or forget. This morning’s email contained a link to The Center for American Progress (www.americanprogress.org), a candidly anti-Conservative site. Candid because the home page carries a link to the site’s...

Ken sure got around! CEO tied to Kerrys, too By David R. Guarino President Bush may know indicted ex-Enron boss Ken Lay as ``Kenny Boy,'' but Sen. John F. Kerry [related, bio] and his millionaire wife also have past financial and personal ties to Lay's shamed energy firm, documents show. Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry reported more than $250,000 in Enron stock ownership before the firm's 2003 collapse. Kerry also was forced to return a campaign contribution from an implicated Enron executive. And Heinz Kerry served on a charity board with Lay, even after he was implicated in the alleged...

President Bush may know indicted ex-Enron boss Ken Lay as ``Kenny Boy,'' but Sen. John F. Kerry [related, bio] and his millionaire wife also have past financial and personal ties to Lay's shamed energy firm, documents show. Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry reported more than $250,000 in Enron stock ownership before the firm's 2003 collapse. Kerry also was forced to return a campaign contribution from an implicated Enron executive. And Heinz Kerry served on a charity board with Lay, even after he was implicated in the alleged fraud, records show. Kerry has railed against the Bush administration's handling of the...

President Bush may know indicted ex-Enron boss Ken Lay as ``Kenny Boy,'' but Sen. John F. Kerry [related, bio] and his millionaire wife also have past financial and personal ties to Lay's shamed energy firm, documents show. Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry reported more than $250,000 in Enron stock ownership before the firm's 2003 collapse. Kerry also was forced to return a campaign contribution from an implicated Enron executive. And Heinz Kerry served on a charity board with Lay, even after he was implicated in the alleged fraud, records show. Kerry has railed against the Bush administration's handling of the...

Ken Lay comes out fighting. He holds a press conference after his indictment. He wants a trial before the election. His lawyer says there are political overtones to the indictment.

July 7, 2004, 3:22PM New Enron indictment believed to target man at top: Ken Lay The Enron grand jury delivered a sealed indictment in court today, and lawyers close to the case believe it contains charges against ex-Chairman Ken Lay and that he will likely surrender Thursday.

Ken Lay indicted.

HOUSTON - Enron Corp. founder and former chairman Kenneth Lay was expected to surrender Thursday on charges stemming from the company's collapse, 2 1/2 years after the federal government launched its painstaking investigation, sources close to the case told The Associated Press. Two sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said an indictment against Lay, 62, was expected to be unsealed upon or shortly after his surrender to the FBI (news - web sites). Prosecutors from the Justice Department (news - web sites)'s Enron Task Force presented an indictment to U.S. Magistrate Judge Mary Milloy in Houston on Wednesday. At...

why now?

HOUSTON - Kenneth Lay, Enron Corp.'s founder and former chairman, could be indicted on charges stemming from its 2001 collapse by the end of June, sources close to the case told The Associated Press on Saturday. Two sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said federal prosecutors are aggressively pursuing Lay, and witnesses with information about him have recently testified before a special grand jury probing Enron's December 2001 collapse. Barring any delays, federal prosecutors aim to ask the grand jury for an indictment before the Fourth of July, the sources said. The Houston Chronicle first reported the possible indictment...

<p>HOUSTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors are expected to ask a federal grand jury to indict former Enron Corp. chairman Ken Lay within two weeks on charges related to the company's 2001 collapse, a newspaper reported Saturday.</p> <p>The Houston Chronicle, citing unnamed sources, said Lay likely would face fraud charges similar to those filed earlier against former Enron chief executive office Jeffrey Skilling and former Enron chief accounting officer Richard Causey.</p>

When a forest fire shut down a major transmission line into California, cutting power supplies and raising prices, Enron energy traders celebrated, CBS News Correspondent reports. "Burn, baby, burn. That's a beautiful thing," a trader sang about the massive fire. Four years after California's disastrous experiment with energy deregulation, Enron energy traders can be heard – on audiotapes obtained by CBS News – gloating and praising each other as they helped bring on, and cash-in on, the Western power crisis. "He just f---s California," says one Enron employee. "He steals money from California to the tune of about a million."...

Enron E-mails Confirm Schwarzenegger-Ken Lay MeetingDate: Tuesday, October 07 @ 18:04:55 Topic Politicians Enron E-Mails Show Arnold Met With Ken Lay During Energy CrisisConsumer Watchdog Internal Enron e-mails confirm that Arnold Schwarzenegger was among a small group of executives who met with Lay at the posh Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel in May of 2001, in the midst of California's energy crisis. The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, which obtained the e-mails, is calling on Schwarzenegger to acknowledge the meetings and disclose the information that was presented and discussed. The meeting with Enron occurred ten days after rolling blackouts...

Does anyone have links or bookmarks saved that implicate Clinton and other Democrats in the ENRON scandal?

Enron, Bush and the Houston Astros? By Brian Carnell Tuesday, January 22, 2002 What the hell is going on at The Nation? The magazine published, then modified, then finally removed from its site an absurd article by Matt Bivens trying to link George W. Bush to Enron via Bush's failed ventures into baseball. The only problem with the article was that Bivens comes across as perhaps the only person in America dumber than the president. Originally published on January 17, 2002, the article began, When George W. Bush co-owned the Houston Astros and construction began on a new stadium, Kenneth ...

Kenneth Lay's Kerry Connection By Lloyd Grove Friday, June 27, 2003; Page C03 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry regularly scorches the management of Enron, the scandal-ridden, bankrupt energy company founded by Kenneth Lay. Some representative attacks: • Feb. 16, 2002: "No worker in America should be robbed of years of labor by unconscionable personal greed. . . . One of my colleagues compared Enron executives to the Corleone family. Well, I think that's insulting to the Corleones." • Feb. 9, 2003: "The president calls his energy plan 'balanced.' And I suppose it is, if balanced means what it did for...

As everyone knows yesterday was Thanksgiving, which means I was with relatives. One of whom happened to be a social conservative and an economic liberal. Socially he agress that Islam is a terrible awful vile hateful nasty aggressive religion. Economically he and I differ though. He believes that the latest corruption of corporate businesses is the fault of Capitalism. I then asked him who was the head of Enron and he didn't know. I explained to him that Ken Lay was the head of Enron and that it is possible to make the kind of money Ken did, without cheating...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A week before filing for bankruptcy protection, energy giant Enron Corp. donated $100,000 to the Democratic Party committee that helps Senate candidates, campaign finance reports show. The company, which had given 90 percent of its money to Republicans this year before the Democratic donations, also has hired high-profile Washington lawyer Robert Bennett, whose past clients include President Clinton. "Donations of this type reflect certain political realities which are followed by all major corporations," Bennett said Wednesday in explaining Enron's $50,000 checks on Nov. 25 and Nov. 26 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Enron filed for Chapter ...

February 4, 2002 At 11th Hour, Lay Says He Won't Testify By STEPHEN LABATON and RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. ASHINGTON, Feb. 3 — After a weekend of sharp criticism for his stewardship of Enron (news/quote), Kenneth L. Lay, the company's former chief executive, abruptly reversed course this evening and told Congress he would refuse to testify before two committees preparing to hear his testimony, starting on Monday. Earl J. Silbert, the lawyer for Mr. Lay, said he had decided to withdraw because "judgments have been reached and the tenor of the hearings will be prosecutorial." But Congressional aides said ...

in small part to comply with LA Times copy rights... Labor's Love of 401(k)s Thwarts Bid for ReformBy PETER G. GOSSELIN Times Staff Writer April 22 2002 WASHINGTON -- When lawmakers declared they would seek sweeping new protections for the nation's retirement system in the wake of Enron's collapse in December, you could have predicted some of the opponents: corporate types interested in preserving arrangements that ensure cushy tax breaks, free marketeers fearful of any extension of government power and so forth. But add to the opposition an unusual ally: the American labor movement. Top labor leaders quietly refused to...