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    President Bush says he has had "no contact with Enron officials in the past six weeks."     That's a relief. It shows he has sense enough to know when a corporation has turned radioactive and is best approached at the end of a 10-foot pole. Still, this leaves almost an entire year in which Enron officials waltzed in and out of the White House enjoying an unusual degree of access. The Washington Post reports that Vice President Dick Cheney or his aides found time to meet with Enron officials on six occasions in 2001.     On the face of ...

Rep. Henry Waxman of California is looking for tips about wrong doing at Enron... http://www.house.gov/waxman/index.htm , let's ask him to investigate the Clinton Administrations association with this company.......

(CBS) The firm that audited the books of collapsed Enron Corp., Arthur Andersen LLP, disclosed Thursday that a "significant but undetermined" number of documents related to the company had been destroyed. Meanwhile, officials of the U.S. Justice Department, which is investigating Enron, announced that Attorney General John Ashcroft has removed himself from involvement in the case because of campaign contributions from the fallen energy giant. Accounting giant Andersen, which has come under fire from investors and lawmakers for signing off on Enron's books, said it had notified the Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Justice that "in recent ...

White House Notes More Enron Contacts; Arthur Andersen Destroyed RecordsBy Peter Dizikes Jan. 10 — A series of new disclosures added fuel to the Enron controversy today, with the White House acknowledging contacts between the company's CEO and Cabinet members, and Enron's auditor saying it had destroyed thousands of documents pertaining to the collapsed energy colossus. The White House disclosed today that Enron CEO Kenneth Lay contacted both Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Commerce Secretary Don Evans last fall, as the firm was entering a very public downward spiral leading to the biggest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history. Lay apparently ...

<p>January 11, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - Enron chief Kenneth Lay talked with two of President Bush's top economic officials about the company's financial troubles shortly before it collapsed into bankruptcy, the White House acknowledged yesterday.</p> <p>Bush, who received significant campaign contributions from Lay and other Enron executives, said he has never discussed Enron's financial problems with Lay.</p>

(CNSNews.com) - The Justice Department has launched a criminal probe into the fall of Enron, but Attorney General John Ashcroft has recused himself from the case because he received contributions ($57,000 for his last U.S Senate campaign) from the now-bankrupt company. And he's not alone.Media reports were full of news that Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay also contributed heavily to the Bush campaign and had close ties to the White House. On Friday, NBC's Today show opened with Katie Couric paraphrasing the famous question asked of President Nixon during the Watergate scandal: "What did they know and when did they ...

The clintons, Ron Brown, Robert Rubin, Vernon Jordan, Robert Strauss, and Enron . . . and Helen Thomas Ron Brown's V.I.P. Junkets Flying For D.N.C. Dollars &nbsp; by Ken Silverstein, The Nation &nbsp; The cries of outrage coming from the White House over Republican threats to eliminate the Commerce Department have as least as much to do with self-interest as with fealty to the corporate cause. Through the department's efforts to promote exports, the Clintonites argue, American businesses landed foreign deals worth $47 billion last year. But a little cross-referencing of the companies thus helped and of campaign contribution ...

(CNSNews.com) - As Congress prepares to launch hearings into the financial collapse of the energy giant Enron, most members of the Senate, including Democrats, will be hard-pressed to distance themselves from the firm. The Center for Responsive Politics, citing Federal Election Commission (FEC) records, indicates 71 current senators and 187 current House members received political contributions from Enron between the years 1989 and 2001. The top recipients, both in the Senate and House, are from Texas, where Enron is headquartered. Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison got the most -- $99,500, while her Texas Republican colleague, Phil Gramm, received the ...

&nbsp; WHITE HOUSE DOES STARBUCKS ENRON A CLINTON KAFFEEKLATSCHEE March 5, 1996, caf&eacute; au maps (in the Map Room)&nbsp; bill clinton Chief Kaffeeklatscher, Mocha Muddier &amp; Bean Counter Hot Springs, Ark. Moe Biller President, American Postal Workers Union Washington, D.C. Jerry Connors President, Manufactured Housing Institute Arlington, Va. Jim Cramer President, Cramer &amp; Company New York, N.Y. Donald L. Fowler National Chairman, Democratic National Committee Washington, D.C. Howard Janet Attorney, Janet, Willoughby &amp; Gershon, LLC Baltimore, Md. Harry Macklowe President, The Macklowe Organization New York, N.Y. R. Scott Pastrick Partner, Black, Manafort, Stone &amp; Kelly Alexandria, Va. Marvin S. ...

<p>A Senate subcommittee will send out 51 subpoenas Friday for information about the company's collapse.</p> <p>The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will be seeking documents back to 1991.</p> <p>No names of those recieving subpoenas are being released but it is known Enron's Chairman and CEO Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeff Skilling are on the list.</p>

Enron’s retirement meltdown is tragic. We don’t yet know if it’s criminal. By Michael W. Lynch "The human impact is staggering," writes CNN’s Bill Press of the Enron collapse. Press details the losses to investors and loss of jobs before landing on the 401(k) wipeout. "Those 11,000 employees whose 401(k) funds were invested exclusively in Enron -- and who were forbidden by Enron’s own rules from diversifying -- today have no retirement plan at all." The misinformation is staggering as well. Nothing that Press, a Democratic hack who earns his living turning every world event to partisan advantage, says about ...

<p>WASHINGTON - "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall."</p> <p>This week, this old nursery rhyme has taken control of this column. From Washington to Pittsburgh by way of New York City and Los Angeles with important detours to China, Japan, India, Mozambique, Croatia, England, Germany and elsewhere in the world, we have been watching and reading about the great fall of Enron.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON -- President Bush called for a thorough government review of the Enron Corp. debacle, amid disclosures that the company's top executive unsuccessfully lobbied two cabinet secretaries for help as the energy-trading concern neared filing for bankruptcy-court protection.</p> <p>Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay also called Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan around the same time that he was seeking assistance from the administration, a Fed spokesman confirmed.</p>

<p>The storm cloud hanging over Enron Corp. and its longtime outside auditor, Arthur Andersen LLP, just got darker.</p> <p>In the latest revelation in the collapse of Enron, Arthur Andersen disclosed to federal agencies investigating the energy trading firm that individuals at the accounting firm in recent months disposed of "a significant but undetermined number" of documents related to its work for Enron.</p>

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WASHINGTON -- President Bush sought to distance himself Thursday from the collapse of energy giant Enron Corp. even as the White House revealed that the company asked for help from two Cabinet officers while it was on the brink of collapse. To continue, point and click here. ================================================================================ Enron and the vengeful Democrats Democrats, who still bear the scars from the Clinton scandal machine, believe they've (finally) hit pay-dirt with the Enron debacle. And so does the media. The 'Grey Lady' of yellow journalism, predictably, was on the warpath yesterday. In a piece ominously titled, "White House Moves to ...

White House Coffee Guest List: March 5, 1996 Host: President Clinton Attending: DNC Supporters Location: Map Room Moe Biller President, American Postal Workers Union Washington, D.C. Jerry Connors President, Manufactured Housing Institute Arlington, Va. Jim Cramer President, Cramer & Company New York, N.Y. Donald L. Fowler National Chairman, Democratic National Committee Washington, D.C. Howard Janet Attorney, Janet, Willoughby & Gershon, LLC Baltimore, Md. Harry Macklowe President, The Macklowe Organization New York, N.Y. R. Scott Pastrick Partner, Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly Alexandria, Va. Marvin S. Rosen Finance Chairman, Democratic National Committee Washington, D.C. Robert Rubin Executive Vice President and Director, ...

<p>Washington, Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Undersecretary of Treasury for Domestic Finance Peter Fisher rejected an overture from a top Enron Corp. official to contact bankers on behalf of the troubled energy giant that later went bankrupt, the Treasury department said.</p>

Enron's ties with the Bush administration: By Associated Press, 1/11/2002 13:07 Enron's ties with the Bush administration: Bush raised nearly $114,000 in political action committee money and individual donations from Enron during the presidential campaign. Enron also gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to Bush's two gubernatorial campaigns in Texas. Independent analyses show that Enron employees donated almost $800,000 from 1999 to 2001 to Bush, members of Congress and both parties. Most went to GOP causes. Bush said he saw Kenneth Lay, Enron's chief executive, twice last year, but they did not discuss Enron's financial problems. Lay met with Vice ...

No, but the White House should welcome a major investigation. Whatever happens in the coming investigation, Thursday, January 10 will be remembered as the day the Enron issue exploded in Washington. Beyond the headline stories — the calls from Enron chief Kenneth Lay to two Cabinet secretaries, the recusal of Attorney General John Ashcroft from the investigation, and the admission by accounting firm Arthur Andersen that it destroyed a "significant" number of documents in the case — Thursday will also go down as the day two new words entered the debate: special prosecutor. Less than three years after the independent-counsel ...