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ASHINGTON, Jan. 11 — Concern that the escalating Enron inquiry could ensnare the White House has rattled some Republicans in Congress, who said they were not yet willing to defend the administration while so many facts were still unknown but who warned Democrats against trying to use the case for partisan advantage. In interviews, many Republicans said they were hopeful that the investigations would conclude that administration officials had done nothing wrong. But they were approaching the matter warily because so many questions remained unanswered. "The danger here is if somebody acted in a capacity for the administration and ...

[1998 Data] 1991-96 Data [Summary Data] [Geographic Totals] [Sector Totals] [Top Industries] [Top Contributors] [Detailed Contributor Breakdown] [1996 Data Home] [Politicians Home] JOSEPH I. LIEBERMAN (D-CT) Detailed Contributor Breakdown 1996 ELECTION CYCLE Agriculture: $71,450 Crop Production & Basic Processing $3,800 Ocean Spray Cranberries Inc $3,000 Krass-Joseph Inc $1,000 Continental Grain $1,000 Tobacco $16,000 UST Inc $6,000 Philip Morris $3,000 Dairy $8,050 Mid-America Dairymen $5,500 Associated Milk Producers $1,000 Agricultural Services/Products $9,450 American Veterinary Medical Assn $3,000 Archer-Daniels-Midland Co $2,000 Central Connecticut Farmers Assn $1,200 Farm Credit Council $1,000 Costa Nursery Farms Inc $1,000 Food Processing & Sales $20,800 RJR ...

Friday January 11, 11:10 am Eastern Time Enron's Lay called Greenspan in October WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Enron Corp.'s (NYSE:ENE - news) Chairman Kenneth Lay telephoned Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on Oct. 26, a Fed spokesman confirmed on Friday. The spokesman would not say what was discussed during the conversation but he did say that Greenspan did not follow up the call with any action. ``He did nothing in response to the call. It would have been inappropriate,'' the spokesman said. The White House has said Lay called U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Commerce Secretary Don Evans ...

Don't expect certain Democrats to be too eager to investigate Enron. They won't like what will come out about Bill Clinton and his favorite illegal campaign donor, China. Here's a fascinating item from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's "Dateline D.C." from Dec. 9, headlined "Clinton-Gore sales team eased Enron's path to success." We might have overlooked it if not for an alert from Progressive Review's Sam Smith, that rare honorable leftist who has never flinched from examining Clinton's reign of corruption. "The so-called 'popular press,' in its usual searches for the clay feet with which they invest every well-known person, will now ...

Lanny Davis coming up shortly to discuss Enron. The RATS do not like what he has to say so far. They want scandal. Listen and report.

FLASHBACK: CLINTON OFFICIAL MET WITH ENRON CHAIRMAN; $100,000 CASH DONATION TO DEMOCRATS TIMED TO PLANT APPROVAL TIME MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 1, 1997 On Nov. 22, 1995 President Clinton scrawled an FYI note to chief of staff Mack 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 magazine. In June 1996, ...

Justice Department, Congress Have Proven Incapable of Investigating Charges of High-Level Political Corruption(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today called for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the Enron collapse and any contacts Enron may have had with members of the Bush and Clinton Administrations. The special counsel is required to investigate contacts between Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay and Vice President Cheney, Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neil, and Commerce Secretary Donald Evans. “The Bush Justice Department, despite the recusal of John Aschroft, is hopelessly conflicted in investigating White House and ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Andersen, once the creme de la creme of accounting firms, has been knocked to its knees after a series of revelations about its audit of bankrupt energy trader Enron Corp. After the No. 5 accounting firm's startling admission on Thursday that it destroyed a number of Enron documents, Andersen faces legal wrangles and a desperate race to restore its once pristine credibility, say experts. The beleaguered accounting firm, already sullied by other accounting snafus, earlier admitted it erred in its audit of Enron off-balance sheet partnerships. The murky deals led investors to dump Enron stock, which ...

THE White House response to the collapse of Enron, a Texas-based energy company with strong links to the Bush administration, has "shades of Bill Clinton", a conservative watchdog said yesterday. Judicial Watch, a legal group that pressed Mr Clinton in the latter years of his presidency by investigating every aspect of his personal and professional life, called for a special counsel to investigate the Enron case. Tom Fitton, the group's president, said: "The White House has a nice little scandal on its hands with Enron and they have only themselves to blame. Their reaction certainly has shades of Bill Clinton." ...

Former Clinton Treasury Secretary and current Citigroup executive Robert Rubin telephoned Treasury Undersecretary Peter Fisher regarding Enron and its creditors on Nov. 8, Treasury spokeswoman Michele Davis said Friday. Rubin "asked Fisher what he thought of the idea of Fisher placing a call to rating agencies to work with Enron's bankers to see if there is an alternative to an immediate downgrade," Davis said. "Fisher responded he didn't think it advisable to make such a call. Rubin said he thought that was a reasonable position. Fisher made no call." The eventual credit downgrades were a final action that pushed the ...

I'm sure it was JUST an oversight this week by the ChiTrib Editorial board and reporters that they haven't reported on the numbers of DEMOCRATS that received campaign donations from ENRON. Yes, that must be it, instead of saying that Bush received $800,000 in ENRON moola and SO DID Hillary Clinton...you must have dropped that page on the copy room floor. So, to make it easier for you to print a TOTAL LIST of ALL politicians that received ENRON donations I am including the list from the FEC via Rushlimbaugh.com. Oh, While you are at it, why don't you make ...

CLINTON'S ROGUES GALLERY: DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON SECTION: BEHIND THE ABUSE OF POWER ALLEGATIONS SUBSECTION: APPEARANCE OF QUID PRO QUO Revised 1/8/01 APPEARANCE OF QUID PRO QUO Loral - China Missile Guidance Indonesia/Riady - Sweet Coal Webb Hubbell - $700,000 in business in 6 months ($3.5 million?) Teamsters/DNC - Mutual Financial Federal contracts to unionized companies (pending) IMF/Asia AMF (Arkansas) Kabila (Zaire) - mineral and diamond mining rights Barrelo/Intriago - Llanes Hudson/IBP - Tyson COSCO/Long Beach - China Encryption - Perry/Hambrecht & Quist/HUA MEI/Brooks Telecommunications/SCM/Cylink (H&Q also linked with Salon, DNC) Transfer of Hot Seat ...

WASHINGTON- Shortly after he was confirmed as attorney general, John Ashcroft was invited by Enron Corp. Chairman Kenneth Lay to speak at an exclusive meeting of corporate leaders, Justice Department officials said Friday. Lay, who was vice chairman of the Business Council, introduced Ashcroft at the Feb. 22, 2001, meeting in Washington. Ashcroft spoke about the importance of lowering crime. Government officials, including Federal Reserve members as well as Cabinet secretaries from all recent administrations, have spoken at other meetings of the Business Council, whose members are executives of the nation's largest companies. Ashcroft's speech was arranged by his schedulers ...

<p>CHICAGO (AP) -- Arthur Andersen LLP's destruction of thousands of pages of documents involving Enron Corp. has jolted its credibility and could jeopardize its future as a Big Five accounting firm, experts say.</p> <p>Already under fire as auditor for the bankrupt Houston energy-trading company, Andersen is now under even more intense scrutiny for its disclosure that its employees destroyed documents related to Enron.</p>

New York—Enron's desperate search for off-balance-sheet funding for its frenetic growth in the late 1990s has now led to a bitter legal fight between some of the biggest US banks and insurance companies in the wake of Enron's spectacular bankruptcy. Whatever the outcome, the fight will mean yet more scrutiny for over-the-counter energy deals, market sources say. And big financial players in those markets may find it tougher to buy the amounts of counter-party risk insurance needed to avoid having to allocate their own scarce capital to such OTC deals. The dispute was sparked soon after Enron's Dec 2 bankruptcy ...

Bias In the Morning, Than Just Walk Away The latest example of media bias. The Washington Post headlines Friday: Enron Asked for Help From Cabinet Officials: CEO Sought Intervention Before Bankruptcy. The actual headline should be: Bush Officials Refused to Help Enron: Despite Backing, Administration &quot;Let Nature Take Its Course&quot; Do you have any idea how many Fortune 500 CEOs ask for help every day? Well I don't either, but I bet it's somewhere close to 500 over the course of the year. Do you think the Clinton administration didn't return the calls of major corporate presidents? C'mon. The Post ...

Between 1992 and 1999, the Democratic Party received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Enron Corporation and its officers. Their generosity was not ignored. To help push through energy initiatives in Africa, Clinton’s Energy Secretary (and Monica Lewinsky’s job counselor), Bill Richardson, visited Nigeria in August 1999. “As a result of Secretary Richardson's visit to Nigeria in August, we have embarked on a bilateral cooperation program. The Department is developing an action plan with the Government of Nigeria, which will be coordinated with USAID. Cooperation could include: restructuring and privatization; rural electrification; deployment of clean energy and renewable energy ...

Byron York on NRO The Enron List Liberal Democrats like the bankrupt energy company, too. January 11, 2002 3:50 p.m. &nbsp; Here's a question: Who received more money in political contributions from Enron, conservative Republican Rep. Dick Armey or liberal Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee? The answer is Lee, who, according to a Center for Responsive Politics analysis of Enron's contributions from 1989 to 2001, received $38,000 from Enron &#151; compared to $5,550 for Armey. Another question: Who received more from Enron in the Senate, conservative Republican Jon Kyl or liberal Democrat Charles Schumer? The answer, according to the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a widening circle of apparent efforts by major campaign contributor Enron to seek help from the Bush administration, the energy trading giant's president called a top official to ask him to intervene before the firm collapsed, a Treasury spokeswoman said on Friday. The latest revelation in the largest bankruptcy case in U.S. history followed word from the White House on Thursday that Enron Corp. Chairman Kenneth Lay, a major Bush campaign contributor, called Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Commerce Secretary Don Evans, Bush's 2000 campaign manager, last fall to warn them of Enron's mounting financial problems. ...

David Callaway is a "Big-Time" writer for CBS Marketwatch. We know he's a "Big-Time" writer because he's on the front page of Marketwatch and he's even got his picture displayed prominently on his column. If you rate getting your mug on your column, you're officially "Big-Time." And we apply the description "Big-Time" in the "Dick Cheney" meaning of the term. You see, Mr. Callaway has deemed himself as prosecutor, judge, and jury of the White House's involvement in the collapse of energy giant Enron. Writing in his January 10th column called "Enron is not Bush's Whitewater...It will be worse," Mr. ...