<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress is examining whether multimillion-dollar loans to Enron Corp. by big investment banks had the effect of helping the now-collapsed company conceal its true financial condition.</p>
<p>The banks used complex financial schemes to boost Enron's anemic cash flow to match its profit growth on paper, according to lawmakers. The energy-trading company recorded the money from the bank loans as trades of natural gas and other commodities with an entity based in the Channel Islands off Britain.</p>