Posted on 01/12/2002 12:35:54 PM PST by Timesink
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:50 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Former Clinton Treasury secretary Robert E. Rubin telephoned a top Treasury official last fall to explore whether the Bush administration could intervene on behalf of Enron Corp. as the giant energy company neared collapse, officials said yesterday.
Rubin, chairman of the executive committee at Citigroup, one of Enron's main creditors, called Peter Fisher, Treasury undersecretary for domestic finance, and asked "what he thought of the idea" of calling bond-rating agencies to help forestall a crippling reduction in Enron's credit rating, according to a statement released by the Treasury Department.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I know a couple other news outlets' stories on this have been posted already; I don't care. This info needs to be seen by as many Freepers as possible.
The Waxbastard?
And this is not a rehash of an AP or Reuters story. It's given a WashPost byline.
Further, did we hear anyone complaining that the 401Ks of Microsoft employees was being decimated while slick went after Gates?
Rubin is one of the Wall Street wizards who either did not see ENRON imploding, or saw it, and chose to do nothing.
Ken Lay was all over Peter Fisher according to published reports.
Peter Fisher announced on October 31 that the 30 yr. Treasury bond would be eliminated. The 30 yr. soared in price. Those in the know made a quick killing. It is public knowledge this news was leaked in advance of the announcement. What do you think the odds are that Ken Lay was let in on this freebee money gift? I hope Congress check's out Enron's bond trading activities right around Halloween.
J.P. Morgan Chase is heavily involved with Enron. Morgan has a 23 trillion dollar interest rate derivative position on their books. LTCM blew up because of derivatives. It appears Enron did too. Could Morgan be next? Was the U.S. Treasury's long bond decision a maneuver to keep Morgan's derivative book from evaporating. After all, Morgan, O'Neill, Fisher and Greenspan knew that Enron was going down and going down BIG.
No concern from the Demcorats there. Then again, Gates didn't pay his tribute to the DNC...
It is beginning to look as if Greenspan kept everything propped up for the sake of slick willie and when the end of his term was close, he pulled the plug and instends to keep the market down. Raising interest rates while energy costs were skyrocketing was a sure fire prescription for disaster.....
No concern from the Demcorats there. Then again, Gates didn't pay his tribute to the DNC...
Well now, no one could ever prove anything about the Clintons and their gang. That was the genius of the whole operation. Think of the Clinton Administration as a mob protection racket. You gave money to Clinton, you got to send your classified satellites to China. You moved money around for Clinton? You might have access to the construction of oil lines in Central Asia (I think the was Roger Tamraz' gig).
But if you didn't pay protection?
Justice came down on Bill Gates as an object lesson to other contributors. Sure Bill Gates was a monopolistic s.o.b., but had he dropped a couple of million dollars at the DNC through PAC cutouts and made Clinton aware of what he was doing, Justice NEVER WOULD HAVE TOUCHED HIM.
Bill Gates should have paid protection, that's all.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
During the Clinton years, I think Schmidt might have been one of the writers on their Whitewater team. Perhaps I'm confusing this with the NY TIMES Whitewater team, but I don't think so. I had written a piece on FR regarding the fact that the so-called Whitewater team did not even know who Jerry Parks was. That was incredible. Parks had loads of damaging info on Clinton. On the day he was killed, documents were removed from his home. Let's use our research abilities and maybe we indeed can help the POST take this story in the right direction --- the real truth.
Oh really?
Contributor | Occupation | Date | Amount | Recipient |
MICROSOFT REDMOND, WA 98052 |
3/10/1999 | $10,000 | DCCC/Non-Federal Account 1 | |
MICROSOFT REDMOND, WA 98052 |
5/5/1999 | $25,000 | RNC/Repub National State Elections Cmte | |
MICROSOFT REDMOND, WA 98052 |
5/6/1999 | $15,000 | DNC/Non-Federal Corporate | |
MICROSOFT REDMOND, WA 98052 |
6/30/1999 | $15,000 | DNC/Non-Federal Corporate | |
MICROSOFT REDMOND, WA 98052 |
7/29/1999 | $10,000 | RNC/Repub National State Elections Cmte | |
MICROSOFT REDMOND, WA 98052 |
9/23/1999 | $10,000 | DCCC/Non-Federal Account 1 | |
MICROSOFT REDMOND, WA 98052 |
10/20/1999 | $10,000 | DCCC/Non-Federal Account 1 | |
MICROSOFT REDMOND, WA 98052 |
12/16/1999 | $10,000 | RNC/Repub National State Elections Cmte | |
MICROSOFT REDMOND, WA 98052 |
12/17/1999 | $15,000 | RNC/Repub National State Elections Cmte | |
MICROSOFT REDMOND, WA 98052 |
12/31/1999 | $32,500 | DCCC/Non-Federal Account 1 | |
MICROSOFT REDMOND, WA 98052 |
1/6/2000 | $35,000 | RNC/Repub National State Elections Cmte | |
MICROSOFT REDMOND, WA 98052 |
3/31/2000 | $55,000 | NRSC/Non-Federal | |
MICROSOFT REDMOND, WA 98052 |
4/12/2000 | $5,000 | RNC/Cmte to Preserve Eisenhower Ctr | |
MICROSOFT REDMOND, WA 98052 |
6/16/2000 | $25,000 | RNC/Repub National State Elections Cmte | |
MICROSOFT REDMOND, WA 98052 |
6/27/2000 | $100,000 | RNC/Repub National State Elections Cmte | |
MICROSOFT REDMOND, WA 98052 |
6/30/2000 | $5,000 | Ashcroft Victory Cmte Non-Federal | |
MICROSOFT REDMOND, WA 98052 |
10/13/2000 | $20,000 | RNC/Repub National State Elections Cmte | |
MICROSOFT REDMOND, WA 98052 |
10/13/2000 | $25,000 | RNC/Repub National State Elections Cmte | |
MICROSOFT WASHINGTON, DC 20036 |
7/29/1999 | $5,000 | DNC/Non-Federal Corporate | |
MICROSOFT WASHINGTON, DC 20036 |
8/31/1999 | $15,000 | DNC/Non-Federal Corporate | |
MICROSOFT WASHINGTON, DC 20036 |
12/31/1999 | $45,000 | NRSC/Non-Federal | |
MICROSOFT WASHINGTON, DC 20036 |
8/10/2000 | $15,000 | DNC/Non-Federal Corporate | |
MICROSOFT CORP REDMOND, WA 98052 |
5/17/1999 | $60,000 | NRSC/Non-Federal | |
MICROSOFT CORP REDMOND, WA 98052 |
8/17/1999 | $25,000 | NRSC/Non-Federal | |
MICROSOFT CORP REDMOND, WA 98052 |
6/7/2000 | $321 | National Abortion Rights Action League | |
MICROSOFT CORP REDMOND, WA 98052 |
9/14/2000 | $5,831 | RNC/Repub National State Elections Cmte | |
MICROSOFT CORP REDMOND, WA 98052 |
10/26/2000 | $25,000 | NRSC/Non-Federal | |
MICROSOFT CORP REDMOND, WA 98052 |
10/26/2000 | $25,000 | NRSC/Non-Federal | |
MICROSOFT CORP WASHINGTON, DC 20036 |
6/28/2000 | $30,000 | NRSC/Non-Federal | |
MICROSOFT CORP WASHINGTON, DC 20036 |
7/11/2000 | $200 | NRSC/Non-Federal | |
MICROSOFT CORP WASHINGTON, DC 20036 |
8/11/2000 | $50,000 | NRSC/Non-Federal | |
MICROSOFT CORPORATION REDMOND, VA 98073 |
2/26/1999 | $50,000 | DSCC/Non-Federal Corporate | |
MICROSOFT CORPORATION REDMOND, WA 98052 |
7/26/1999 | $30,000 | 1999 Republican S/H Dinner Trust Non-Fed | |
MICROSOFT CORPORATION REDMOND, WA 98052 |
9/13/1999 | $5,000 | DSCC/Non-Federal Mixed | |
MICROSOFT CORPORATION REDMOND, WA 98052 |
10/26/1999 | $50,000 | RNC/Repub National State Elections Cmte | |
MICROSOFT CORPORATION REDMOND, WA 98052 |
11/3/1999 | $25,000 | DSCC/Non-Federal Corporate | |
MICROSOFT CORPORATION REDMOND, WA 98052 |
12/31/1999 | $500 | DSCC/Non-Federal Mixed | |
MICROSOFT CORPORATION REDMOND, WA 98052 |
12/31/1999 | $5,000 | Ashcroft Victory Cmte Non-Federal | |
MICROSOFT CORPORATION REDMOND, WA 98052 |
2/16/2000 | $40,000 | RNC/Repub National State Elections Cmte | |
MICROSOFT CORPORATION REDMOND, WA 98052 |
2/29/2000 | $10,000 | DCCC/Non-Federal Account 1 | |
MICROSOFT CORPORATION REDMOND, WA 98052 |
3/30/2000 | $56,542 | DCCC/Non-Federal Account 1 | |
MICROSOFT CORPORATION REDMOND, WA 98052 |
4/4/2000 | $30,000 | 2000 Republican H/S Dinner Trust Non-Fed | |
MICROSOFT CORPORATION REDMOND, WA 98052 |
4/11/2000 | $33,690 | NRSC/Non-Federal | |
MICROSOFT CORPORATION REDMOND, WA 98052 |
4/11/2000 | $51,832 | NRSC/Non-Federal | |
MICROSOFT CORPORATION REDMOND, WA 98052 |
4/17/2000 | $15,000 | DCCC/Non-Federal Account 1 | |
MICROSOFT CORPORATION REDMOND, WA 98052 |
4/17/2000 | $40,000 | DSCC/Non-Federal Corporate | |
MICROSOFT CORPORATION REDMOND, WA 98052 |
4/21/2000 | $453 | NRSC/Non-Federal | |
MICROSOFT CORPORATION REDMOND, WA 98052 |
4/21/2000 | $698 | NRSC/Non-Federal | |
MICROSOFT CORPORATION REDMOND, WA 98052 |
5/24/2000 | $8,985 | 2000 Republican H/S Dinner Trust Non-Fed | |
MICROSOFT CORPORATION REDMOND, WA 98052 |
6/8/2000 | $250 | DSCC/Non-Federal Mixed |
And that's just the first half of the table.
Rush said today that Rubin was Daschle's advisor in the Senate on the tax cut smear speech. That bombed, but a few days later Enron coincidentally surfaces as a "scandal." Daschle's in Uzbekistan.
Rubin's with Citigroup, Enron's biggest creditor I read. Wouldn't he know the state of Enron's finances in advance? Wouldn't Rubin and Daschle both know the effect of pulling the energy bill on our energy companies? Wouldn't they know the effect of Enron's demise on our economy? They both certainly knew that the Dems. were not polling well re. election 2002. When did the scheming begin, with Jeffords jump?
Enron and the Clintonites
Enron - What's Going On?, Neil Boortz's 60-sec. summary. FR thread.
Dingell: I'll grill Rubin on Enron
Ex-TVA director, Gore friend got large sums to aid Enron
Mozambique: Enron Files for Bankruptcy , Clinton and co.
Then we can assist Henry in his fishing expedition-
Waxman Enron tip line. Cheers.
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