Posted on 08/22/2002 11:59:55 AM PDT by ArcLight
Notice that the Clintons were conveniently in Martha's Vineyard at the time of the hit.
I suppose YOU believe the Vince Foster Suicide fable ?(Well I guess that's the effects of YOUR medication.....mine was only an antibiotic.)
uhhhh...what *he* said.
Besides; everyone knows Starkist wants tunas that taste good.
...not tunas with good taste. ;^)
See LarryLied's comment.
It was the landing.
Hmmm, you know I think I actually saw him and several other business writers discussing the Enron mess. It was actually a watchable episode because Mr. Rose was off recuperating from his heart surgery and not there to talk over his guests. If the deceased gentleman is who I recall, he was relatively entertaining to listen to -- if not, then the other reporters weren't to bad either.
This is what you get when a guy with an Oprahfied mentality runs a big business --- unbearably saccharine sentimentality born of pretense and presumption.
It's scary to realize that girly-boy Sulzberger calls the shots at the NYT, and that so many elite and influential Americans depend on his hires for an interpretation of the events of the day.
From http://www.vcnet.com/~rossde/edtl_gay_marriage.html:
A significant part of the (ENRON) fraud involved hiding questionable financial arrangements in off-shore limited partnerships. To a large extent, that hiding was legal if at least 3% of a limited partnership was owned by a corporate "outsider", someone who had no connection to Enron either through employment or a relationship to an employee.Kopper cops a plea, Fastow's assets are frozen that night and the next day a reporter who covered Enron is dead after falling out a window.Michael Kopper, an assistant to Enron's chief financial officer Andrew Fastow, turned $125,000 into a personal windfall of $10,500,000 while managing Chewco, one of Enron's off-shore partnerships. Kopper also helped to create others of Enron's partnerships from which he profited (profits that rightly belong to Enron itself and to its stockholders, no less than the partnership debts that collapsed Enron).
According to the Los Angeles Times, Kopper's personal ownership share in Chewco was enough that the required 3% outside ownership was not satisfied for that limited partnership. That would have required Chewco's finances to be included with Enron's, blowing the cover on some of the worst of the fraud. To satisfy the 3% criterion, Kopper transferred his share to William Dodson, Kopper's domestic partner. Since Texas law does not give any legal recognition to same-gender domestic partners, Kopper asserts that Dodson cannot be considered an Enron insider.
This creates an interesting situation. Either Dodson is truly an Enron outsider, and thus Chewco was legally kept off Enron's books (eliminating the possibility of criminal charges for this part of the fraud). Or else Dodson's relationship with Kopper made Dodson an insider, which means that prosecution of this part of the fraud creates some legal recognition for same-gender couples. Of course, the way politicians enact laws, we might see same-gender couples receive all the burdens and penalties of married couples but none of the benefits.
(Did Dodson pay full value for Kopper's share of Chewco? Otherwise, Kopper was supposed to pay a federal gift tax. One of the benefits enjoyed by married couples — but not by same-gender domestic partners — is the right to give each other substantial assets tax-free.)
Uh huh....
Okay. Was he also gagged and bound hand and foot or did he have piano wire around his neck? This should keep some of the others quiet.
Mr. Howell Raines! How many of your other reporters are on the take? We expect full onshore and offshore audits of your entire firm to be published in black and white so that we can know if all the news that's fit to print is all bought and paid for by special interests! What do you say Howell Raines? Or can we never trust the paper of record again?? (as if we ever did, but whatever)
No miracle on 43rd Street.
I knew but I forgot! Excellent! Wonder if Krugman and Kristol met Myerson at any Enron parties.There was so much money being lavished on everyone and everything. You are correct. Kopper turning rat is the end for all of them. It is over. Coincidences happen but this reporter killing himself (or being killed) within 24 hours of the case cracking wide open is too much of a coincidence.
Thanks for the memory jog...there were articles posted on FR about Kristol getting paid off by Enron...
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