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Bill Clinton a friend of Ken Lay - received $100,000 from Enron 4 years ago
Time
| Sept 1,1997
| MICHAEL WEISSKOPF
Posted on 12/15/2001 10:52:52 AM PST by Kay Soze
September 01, 1997 THE WHITE HOUSE THAT INVISIBLE MACK SURE CAN LEAVE HIS MARK BY MICHAEL WEISSKOPF/WASHINGTON Time Magazine
In Part:
For a man who had supposedly vanished from the corridors of power, MACK MCLARTY was the man to see in 1996. BILL CLINTON's former chief of staff, now a White House counselor tucked away in the basement, provided assistance to businessmen who ponied up $1.5 million for the Democrats in the last election. On Nov. 22, 1995, for example, Clinton scrawled an FYI note to McLarty, enclosing a newspaper article on Enron Corp. and the vicissitudes of its $3 billion power-plant project in India. McLarty then reached out to Enron's chairman, KEN LAY, and over the next nine months closely monitored the project with the U.S. ambassador to New Delhi, keeping Lay informed of the Administration's efforts, according to White House documents reviewed by TIME. In June 1996, four days before India granted final approval to Enron's project, Lay's company gave $100,000 to the President's party. Enron denies that its gift was repayment for Clinton's attention, and White House special counsel LANNY DAVIS says McLarty acted out of concern for a major U.S. investment overseas.
Nevertheless, there does seem to be a McLarty pattern. At Clinton's request, he met with international oil consultant ROGER TAMRAZ and asked the Energy Department if the Administration could not be more supportive of his Caspian Sea pipeline proposal (Tamraz' contribution: $200,000). And last week the Washington Post reported that Davis says McLarty acted "appropriately" in every case.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: calpowercrisis; calpowergate; michaeldobbs
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Pls note that Clinton knew Mr Lay for four years prior to Enrons implosion. Why did not the democrats secure the pensions of the employees? Hmmmm?
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posted on
12/15/2001 10:52:52 AM PST
by
Kay Soze
To: Kay Soze
Excellent research and thanks for posting this!
To: Kay Soze;Ernest_at_the_Beach;*calpowergate;*calpowercrisis
Thanks Kay. I need to flag some other folks on this.
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posted on
12/15/2001 11:03:36 AM PST
by
snopercod
To: Seeking the truth; Kay Soze
To: Kay Soze
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posted on
12/15/2001 11:09:47 AM PST
by
lewislynn
To: chaser
fyi
To: Kay Soze
This is exactly why the name ENRON has disappeared from the breathless newsreaders on lamestream TV!!!
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posted on
12/15/2001 11:16:21 AM PST
by
OldFriend
To: Kay Soze
In '92, when Klintoon and Bush Sr. were running "neck and ncek" Ken Lay played golf, seperately, with both Klintoon and 41 in the same week. His exec's gave him a present: a golf head cover (driver) that was an elephant on one side --- turn it inside out and it's a donkey. We execs. all laughed .....that Lay was Bipolitical, i.e. Gave $$$$$ to both! And they in turn......
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posted on
12/15/2001 11:17:40 AM PST
by
TRY ONE
To: Kay Soze
Bump!
To: JulieRNR21; snopercod
Is there an Enron ping list yet? This is one story I'm very interested in.
To: Kay Soze
Speaking of Enron, some of those $4,000 severance checks to the laid off employees are bouncing. We just found out yesterday from some former co-workers of my husband. My husband deposited ours today, and the bank has put a ten day hold on it. This reminds you of some fly-by night shady two bit small business gone under. I wonder if those million dollar bonuses given to VPs to stay to help "rebuild" the company are bouncing too. Doubt it.
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posted on
12/15/2001 12:13:04 PM PST
by
Lanza
To: Lanza
Speaking of Enron, some of those $4,000 severance checks to the laid off employees are bouncing. We just found out yesterday from some former co-workers of my husband. My husband deposited ours today, and the bank has put a ten day hold on it. This reminds you of some fly-by night shady two bit small business gone under. I wonder if those million dollar bonuses given to VPs to stay to help "rebuild" the company are bouncing too. Doubt it.And if there's a problem with the check bouncing, they'll tell you to talk to the bankruptcy court. That's loathesome and disgusting behavior.
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posted on
12/15/2001 12:37:36 PM PST
by
Catspaw
To: Kay Soze
Lay was a major contributor to the gwbush campaign, and some say one of gwb's closest friends. Rove, and others in the bush admin used to "work" for enron. Cheney held a secret energy meeting (can anyone say Hillary?) that likely included a few enron top execs and still refuses to make details public. This board was in an uproar re: whitewater, but enron has largely been given the silent treatment.
But you go right ahead and try to blame the current mess on x42.
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posted on
12/15/2001 12:48:06 PM PST
by
NonMerci
To: TRY ONE
Sounds like Lay buttered both sides of his bread. I thought I heard he was a big supporter of Lee P. Brown's too (the liberal democrat mayor that just won re-election again AND has done a terrible job).
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posted on
12/15/2001 12:55:28 PM PST
by
Lanza
To: Kay Soze
Why are you surprised?
To: JulieRNR21
BTTT
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posted on
12/15/2001 4:39:38 PM PST
by
ChaseR
To: Lanza
Yep....whoever's got the Power Stick is the Man!
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posted on
12/16/2001 11:54:46 AM PST
by
TRY ONE
To: NonMerci
"The current Bush administration is also studded with Enron connections. Secretary of the Army Thomas White is a former high-ranking Enron executive, and Robert Zoellick, the U.S. Trade representative, was a paid member of Enron's advisory board. The Washington consulting firm run by Lawrence Lindsey, the White House's top economic advisor, worked for Enron. And other top officials, including Karl Rove, Bush's chief political strategist and I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, both owned huge chunks of Enron stock when they joined the Bush administration. It's also worth remembering that at the end of the first Bush administration, Enron hired chief of staff James Baker and Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher."
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posted on
12/23/2001 4:00:50 PM PST
by
rdavis84
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