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To: Toddsterpatriot
The CFMA didn't make cooking your books legal.

It made it a lot easier to escape detection for a longer period. And when Enron finally got caught, the financial impact was catastrophic to a lot of people.

69 posted on 10/24/2009 12:20:56 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy
The CFMA didn't make cooking your books legal.

It made it a lot easier to escape detection for a longer period.

How?

70 posted on 10/24/2009 12:43:36 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Math is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: dirtboy
It made it a lot easier to escape detection for a longer period.

CFMA became law on December 21, 2000. Enron filed for bankruptcy in December 2001. Wow, that CFMA was a powerful thing. It helped them escape detection for almost a year.

Maybe there were other things involved? Things that would have resulted in bankruptcy, even without CFMA?

Or was it all Phil Gramm's fault?

71 posted on 10/24/2009 1:19:41 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Math is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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