Posted on 05/25/2006 4:23:08 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
It's a 3-4 day weekend for many Americans. The start of summer. Democrats can sit indoors and be grumpy if they want.
We aren't buying thier lies or smears.
And what of those Fannie Mae execs?
2. Florida's State pension fund, which lost $325 million on Enron, is examining what role Frank Savage, a major Democratic donor, may have played in the state's loss. Alliance Capital Management directed the fund's investments, where Savage was a senior executive and chairman at the same time he sat on Enron's board. He has donated $100,000 to Democrats and is raising money for New York gubernatorial candidate Carl McCall. Source: Time Magazine
3. Lloyd Bensten, Clinton's first treasury secretary, was a recipient of Enron's money. At the time of his campaign for Senate, he received the second largest donation from Enron. Source: Center for Responsive Politics
4. Robert Rubin, Bensten's successor, was involved with Enron while he worked as an investment banker at Goldman & Sachs. Clinton first hired Rubin to head his National Economic Council. Soon afterwards, Rubin wrote on Goldman Sachs stationery to former clients, including Enron, in which he ''looked forward to continuing to work with you in my new capacity.'' Source: WorldNet Daily
5. In the days when Franjo Tudjman was Croatia's dictator and pretending to be both a reformed communist and best friend of America in the Balkans, poor Franjo had a problem. He and some of his very best friends were wanted as war criminals by The Hague's International Court of Justice. Enron wanted a power contract with Croatia. Enron offered a deal to Tudjman. Sign up with us and we will use our gang in Washington to make sure you and your friends don't go to jail. Tudjman signed. Enron made a heap of money. Nobody went to jail. Everyone was happy - until Tudjman died of cancer. Then the lid was off, his Croatian Democratic Union was defeated and the new boys in power in Zagreb could not believe how much of their budget went to pay the electricity bills from Enron. Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
6. In August 1993, McLarty, Clinton's former chief of staff, arranged an invitation for Lay, Enron's CEO, to play golf with Clinton in Vail, Colorado. This date irritated Oscar Wyatt, chief executive of Coastal, another natural gas company that had helped the Clinton election campaign raise funds. These connections to the Democratic administration helped Enron considerably. Source: Time Magazine
7. Clinton officials publicly helped Enron win the contract in India as well as in Indonesia. Enron had received U.S. government funds to build power plants in China, the Philippines and Turkey. Enron also won contracts in Pakistan and Russia while accompanying senior U.S. government officials on state trips. In June 1996, four days before India granted final approval to Enron's project, Lay's company gave $100,000 to the DNC. Source: Time Magazine
8. Enron got permission to build a pipeline from Mozambique to South Africa after National Security Adviser Anthony Lake threatened to withhold aid to Mozambique if it didn't approve the project. Source: Mozambique News Agency
9. The bulk of Enron's alleged chicanery had to have happened during the Clinton administration. Source: Fortune Magazine
10. Enron Corporation donated $100,000 to the Democratic National Committee. Six days later, Enron executives were on a trade mission with Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor to Bosnia and Croatia. With Kantor's support, Enron signed a $100 million contract to build a 150-megawatt power plant Source: The Weekly Standard
11. Kenneth Lay hired the firm of Clinton's former chief of staff Mack McLarty. Source: Fortune Magazine
12. Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer of New York, John Breaux of Louisiana, and Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico--chairman of the Senate Energy Committee were among the top beneficiaries of Enron's political donations. Source: Fortune Magazine
13. Kenneth Lay retained Linda Robertson, a Democrat who worked for the Clinton Treasury Department, as his top D.C. lobbyist. Source: Fortune Magazine
14. Dynergy, an energy company which wanted to buy Enron and later sued them, donated $1,000 of dollars to Henry Waxman (D-CA) in the 2001-2002 cycle, one of the men leading the Enron investigation. Source: Center for Responsive Politics
15. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee received three checks from the Houston-based energy and trading giant totaling $100,000. Karen Denne, an Enron spokeswoman, said the company had a record of two checks written to the committee -- dated Sept. 24 and Nov. 2 Source: New York Post
16. Joe Lieberman's and Tom Daschle's largest Contributor in the 2000 election cycle was Enron's Largest Creditor, Citigroup. Source: Center for Responsive Politics
17. Enron was apparently a big backer of some parts of the Kyoto Treaty. Source: Enron.com
18. Ken Lay slept in the Clinton White House and served as an adviser to the Clinton White House on energy issues. Source: Drudge Report
19. Enron's lead Washington lawyer is Robert Bennett, who represented Clinton in the Paula Jones case. Source: NewsMax.com
20. Neil Eggleston, a former White House associate counsel under Clinton, represents Enron's outside directors. Source: New York Post
IT'S THE TOONS' ADMINISTRATION THAT LAY HAD UNLIMITED ACCESS TO....LAY STAYED IN THE WH 11 TIMES UNDER TOONS' ADMINISTRATION....PLUS MUCH MUCH MORE....
You have a good point...and I have been thinking about what I posted...and I think it more of a rationalization on MY part...because I know he won't respond in kind.
You are right...he needs to.
This is going to be the meme of the day.
The problem is that Enron flew high during Clinton's reign. Clinton greased the wheels for them when ever they were in trouble.
Bush refused to grease the wheels for them, and they collapsed. Bush prosecuted them, and they are going to jail.
Clinton enabled Enron; Bush jailed them.
When Enron was first exposed and collapsed, Senator Lieberman made a big deal out of connecting Bush to this scandal, and he held committee meetings to look into it.
Funny thing .. within a few weeks of Lieberman's investigation, a BIG FAT link was found to the Clintons - and Lieberman quickly closed the hearings and we never heard another word about it.
So .. for the DNC to try to revive this .. it's another drive-by media attack which will backfire on them again.
Take you time getting back to me.f
Love,
Tex
Yep - bumping to keep the truth on the front page.
No, he wouldn't have gotten off 'scott free'...
He would have had to buy a pardon like everybody else.
" ... 3. Lloyd Bensten, Clinton's first treasury secretary, was a recipient of Enron's money. At the time of his campaign for Senate, he received the second largest donation from Enron. Source: Center for Responsive Politics ..."
Let's see if KennyBoy feels up to going to Lloyd Bentsen's funeral next Tuesday, with BJ as the star eulogist.
He should be able to make it, no electronic monitoring or ankle bracelet. But he may cry at the funeral, not for Bentsen, but for the reminder when he thinks of his former beach house at Galveston next door to Bentsen's. KL had to sell it a couple of years ago to pay back some of his ill-gotten loan gains for which he was found guilty yesterday.
That was when his 4 homes in Aspen were also on the market - or was it three homes and a vacant lot or two? So hard to keep track, as Lay said he and Linda "were living an affluent lifestyle."
" ... 6. In August 1993, McLarty, Clinton's former chief of staff, arranged an invitation for Lay, Enron's CEO, to play golf with Clinton in Vail, Colorado. This date irritated Oscar Wyatt, chief executive of Coastal, another natural gas company that had helped the Clinton election campaign raise funds. These connections to the Democratic administration helped Enron considerably. Source: Time Magazine ..."
Ha ha, lots of things irritate Oskie-WowWow - but what does this have to do with this list of things?
Oscar himself is in all kinds of trouble, since he's practically a country all by himself. He's the one who is part of the Oil-for-Food scandal and was doing business with Saddam, all on his own, illegally.
October 2005: Indictments are unsealed and Oscar is arrested - but not on TV, as I waited up till all hours to see his perp walk - never did. " ... Under the indictment, the 81 year old Mr. Wyatt faces a potential jail term of at least 60 years and the threat that the Justice Department will attempt to freeze a substantial amount of his assets. Wyatt -- who was arrested early in the morning of October 21 at his home in Houston -- is currently free after pleading not guilty to the charges and posting bail of $2.5 million. ..."
January 2006: "... Two Texans, Oscar Wyatt and David Chalmers, are accused of paying illegal kickbacks to Saddam's regime to secure oil contracts. ..."
April 2006: In a Forbes Magazine article on the tax haven of Cyprus:
" ... Bayoil's owner, David Chalmers Jr., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in New York for alleged manipulation of the program. He has pleaded not guilty.So has Oscar Wyatt Jr., to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and engage in prohibited financial transactions with Iraq. The iconoclastic Texas oil tycoon allegedly acted as an oil consultant or trader on behalf of two Cyprus companies, Mednafta Trading Co. and Nafta Petroleum.
Wyatt had a long history with Saddam. The first to bring Iraqi oil to the U.S. back in 1972, Wyatt met with the dictator in December 1990 and helped with the release of 21 U.S. hostages there. But according to the indictment and the Volcker report, Nafta and Mednafta companies paid surcharges for Iraqi oil and arranged for cargo ships to pick up the oil from Iraq and ship it to larger companies with their own refineries.
As late as January 2003 Wyatt allegedly sent a fax to an Iraqi official on Mednafta stationery to request a meeting in Baghdad. ..."
May 2006: " ... Court papers filed in New York indicate the defense believes the counts were brought only in retaliation for Wyatt being "a persistent and vocal critic of U-S policy." ..."
May 2006: From a local legal blog:
" ... The memorandum also alleges that five government agents and two uniformed police officers arrested Wyatt at his home at 6:13 a.m. on Oct. 21, and that one of the agents injured Wyatt's shoulder when he forced him against the wall and handcuffed him when Wyatt allegedly did not raise his hands quick enough.Interestingly, in another development in the case, the Court recently granted Wyatt's request -- over the governmetn's [sic] objection -- to depose prominent Houston heart surgeon Michael DeBakey as a character witness for Wyatt. Dr. DeBakey, who is in his mid-90's and is a remarkable physical specimen, has recently been battling an illness that has reportedly left him near death. ..."
This week: Meanwhile, back on River Oaks Blvd., life goes on .... "Lynn and Oscar Wyatt rolled out the red carpet recently for the seven couples who have each committed to a $30,000 table for the Trees of Hope gala in November. ..." ... "Sighted: Lynn Wyatt of the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame and Oscar Wyatt, treating Prince Pierre d'Arenberg of the men's International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame and his wife, Princess Sylvie d'Arenberg of Paris, to French-flavored fare at bistro moderne. ...."
Ho hum. Never a dull moment in the oil bidness. Oscar bought or tried to buy parts of Enron "after the fall". Oh yeah, he was the first to buy Saddam's oil, too. Funny, funny people. (I love Oscar.) (Umm, not like some of my other friends have loved Oscar, you understand.)
Yep. In time...
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