Posted on 01/26/2002 7:17:36 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
NewsMax.com
Saturday Jan. 26, 2002; 10:30 a.m. EST
Houstonians Debate: Was Baxter 'Vince Fostered'?
News that ex-Enron executive Cliff Baxter had been found shot to death ignited a firestorm of speculation on Friday, and nowhere was the debate more intense than on talk radio in Baxter's hometown of Houston, Texas.
"I would say it's about 60/40 that people down here think he may have been Vince Fostered," said KPRC radio host Chris Baker Saturday morning.
Suspicions intensified when police rushed Baxter's body from his late model Mercedes where it was found in a Houston suburb to a local funeral home without further examination, the Texas radio talker noted.
But then "the Justice of the Peace in the area decided he was going to be much more thorough," Baker told WABC radio's John Gambling in New York. "So now the body's going to go for autopsy and that cooled down a lot of that, maybe-this-guy-was-murdered thing."
Still, questions continue to swirl, he said.
"You know, there's a saying that you can always blame a dead man so - (while) I truly believe it's a suicide, the rumors are going to start," Baker predicted.
The KPRC host said that any attempt to make Baxter Enrongate's fall guy would be complicated by his image as a straight shooter. "It would be strange to see (Baxter's colleagues) point the finger because this guy did have a reputation for boldly speaking with former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling and protesting against a lot of (the company's) business practices."
Houston police have so far declined to release the contents of a suicide note found in Baxter's car. But ABC News reported Friday night that several coworkers said the ex-Enron executive had expressed distress over the prospect of having to testify against his former colleagues in upcoming Congressional hearings.
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Wisner, who was US ambassador to India when Enron became involved in the Dabhol project, was appointed to the Enron board of directors in 1997. Wisner, as many historians of US intelligence know, is the son of the infamous Frank Wisner Sr, who was a top CIA operative until he committed suicide in 1965. He distinguished himself in two US-supported coups in the 1950s that later came back to haunt US diplomacy: the overthrow of the Arbenz government in Guatemala and the Mossadeq government in Iran
Link for quote above on Wisner.
Houston's Conservative Radio is KSEV, 700 AM
Clear Communications is run by a bunch of liberal "Girlie-Boyz", Huh Ann!
The only record I see getting broken is YOURS in the number of times you have RUN from answering these simple questions I ask. And YOU are the one OBSESSED with Clinton. Like I've said before (and to which people like you NEVER respond), this isn't just about Bill Clinton. It is about an entire party (YOURS) gone BAD ... it is about DOZENS of democRATS in leadership positions who committed serious crimes (like election tampering, treason and MURDER) ... it about that party and the liberal media apparently BLACKMAILING the other party into inaction with regards to those crimes. But you never want to talk about those other criminals, do you. You'd RATHER this just be about Bill ... the master of SPIN.
Reappointed to the board were Donald Axford, Greg Noval, Robert Pilling, T. Harp, Fred Purich and Charles Dallas.
Discrepancies in the Death of Cliff Baxter
Contrary to the statements of the Sugar Land Police Department, it was not two Sugar Land police officers but one of Hal Werlein's Deputy Constables who discovered the former Enron executive slumped behind the wheel of his new Mercedes sedan, parked just inside the Sweetwater development where Baxter and his family lived, in much the poshest part of town.
"Our Constable’s office has a contract deputy program which provides private security guards for the Sweetwater homeowner’s association, and it was one of these men who discovered Mr. Baxter," Werlein told us.
"The report I got from my Deputy Constable there on the scene stated he had come upon a Mercedes sitting parked in a turnout. He became suspicious and approached the vehicle, where he found Baxter still alive. He then immediately called for EMT’s (Emergency Medical Technicians)."
From link above
Not sure if it's been posted on FR elsewhere, but here's a link to the Baxter autopsy report.
And here's a link to Dan Hopsicker's piece on Baxter The Surgarland Sanction, which I found to be very enlightening.
Not much Enron news lately, not since FOB's started showing up in the sex parties list.
Nothing to see here folks, MOVE along.
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