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As we all know, Linda Daschle is a Lobbyist for Northwest Airlines - but did you know, the #2 contributor to her husbands campaign last year was - yes you guessed it. Northwest Airlines. Now if this isn't corrupt I don't know what is. New Page 1 TOM DASCHLE (D-SD) Top Contributors   1 Citigroup Inc $50,000 2 Northwest Airlines $44,150 3 Qwest Communications $41,000 4 Vivendi Universal $34,000 5 HealthSouth Corp $29,300 6 Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co $27,000 7 Verizon Communications $26,500 8 Natl Assn Insurance & Financial Advisors $26,000 9 Bear Stearns $24,500 10 Time Warner ...

hy would the auditors destroy documents? That is the major question raised by the startling disclosure yesterday that auditors from Arthur Andersen began destroying Enron (news/quote) documents and purging computer files in September and continued doing so while Enron collapsed. It is not even clear, Andersen says, whether the destruction of documents stopped after the Securities and Exchange Commission issued Andersen a subpoena. Andersen's role at Enron was far greater than just an auditor. Many of Enron's financial officials, including Richard A. Causey, the chief accounting officer, had come to Enron after working on Enron audits for Andersen. Andersen has ...

TownHall.com: Conservative Columnists: Robert NovakQUICK LINKS: HOME | NEWS | OPINION | RIGHTPAGES | CHAT | WHAT'S NEWtownhall.comRobert Novak (back to story)January 12, 2002Inside Report: Lieberman's stock rising WASHINGTON -- Word has spread in Democratic circles that Sen. Joseph Lieberman no longer conditions a presidential candidacy in 2004 on plans by Al Gore, his 2000 running mate. Contrary to Lieberman's past statements, he would not automatically drop out if the former vice president runs again. Lieberman is supplanting Gore as presidential favorite of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), the original source of Gore's political support. Sen. John Breaux of ...

Audit Papers Usually Held For Years, Accountants Say By FLOYD NORRIS and REED ABELSON here are no hard and fast rules governing how soon an accounting firm can destroy documents related to an audit, but the papers are generally maintained for years, accountants said yesterday after the disclosure that Arthur Andersen had destroyed Enron (news/quote) documents. Only some audit papers are maintained, however, and accounting firms have long held that less important papers can be destroyed as soon as an audit is completed. But lawyers and accountants agreed that all relevant documents must be preserved once an auditor learns ...

<p>More than 250 members of Congress received political contributions from Enron, and at least 15 high-ranking Bush administration officials owned stock in the now-bankrupt energy company, according to two government-watchdog groups.</p> <p>The stockholders included Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, senior Bush adviser Karl Rove, deputy EPA Administrator Linda Fisher, Treasury Undersecretary Peter Fisher and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, according to an analysis of financial disclosures by the Center for Public Integrity.</p>

If, heaven forbid, Algore were president of the United States, would the Enron failure have been any different? I'm not talking about the coverage of it, which of course would've been silent on any connection between Mr. Occidental Petroleum and this energy company. Remember, Jack Quinn, Johnny Hayes and Gregg Simon were all Algore advisors, and all took cash from Enron. So did Bill Clinton, and many other DNC candidates. Enron's two biggest donations to House members went to Democrats. The company spread its cash around. The Democrats are on thin ice on this Enron talk. They're looking for anything ...

<p>Many newspapers and networks seem to think so, judging by their front-page stories and television-news programs, most of which didn't waste any time yesterday branding the legal troubles of the collapsed energy-trading company as "Bush's Whitewater."</p> <p>Reports of President Bush's ties to the energy giant, political contributions, destroyed documents, phone calls to the White House and the decision by Attorney General John Ashcroft to recuse himself from the criminal investigation led reporters, editors and anchors to start laying the groundwork for what may or may not be another Washington scandal.</p>

<p>January 12, 2002 -- The company has a big black eye and people could lose their jobs.</p> <p>That's how employees describe the mood at Arthur Andersen following the bombshell disclosure that the world's fifth largest accounting company destroyed crucial documents in the Enron Corp. bankruptcy.</p>

AUSTIN – In distancing himself from Enron, President Bush said that CEO Kenneth Lay "was a supporter" of Democrat Ann Richards in his first race for Texas governor in 1994. But records and interviews with people involved in the Richards campaign show that he was a far bigger Bush supporter. Mr. Lay and his wife gave Mr. Bush three times more money than Ms. Richards in their gubernatorial contest, according to a computer-assisted review of campaign finance reports by The Dallas Morning News. Because of its collapse, Enron's financial ties with candidates have drawn more scrutiny and increasingly are being ...

Media reports say we should expect a trillion dollar figure associated with the Enron collapse. Significant milestones in the path toward Enron's financial ruin are excerpted below from "Enron: The Global Gospel of Gas," circa 1997 report by the environmentalist group, project underground. Bi-partisanship In this country Enron has traditionally been a major supporter of the Republican party. Ken Lay, the chief executive of Enron, hosted the Republican national convention in Houston in 1992. After George Bush....lost the 1992 election, Enron started to pump money into Democratic coffers such as Lloyd Bentsen, another Texan, and Clinton's first treasury secretary. In ...

<p>Enron Corp. sought to use its political clout and deep pockets to curry favor with the Clinton administration for a proposed $3 billion power plant project in India, giving $100,000 to the Democratic Party when the deal was being completed.</p>

<p>A federal prosecutor from San Francisco who specializes in white-collar crime was named by the U.S. Justice Department today to lead a task force conducting a criminal investigation of Enron Corp.</p> <p>Leslie Caldwell, head of the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney's Office in San Francisco, was appointed to the new post by Assistant U.S. Attorney General Michael Chertoff.</p>

ENRON – WHAT’S GOING ON? Do you want an 60-second rendition of just what all this Enron stuff is all about? OK .. here you go. Enron was the nation’s seventh largest corporation in terms of revenue.  Enron would buy natural gas and electrical energy from producers and re-sell those commodities to distributors and consumers.  Enron was apparently cooking the book.  Enron was heavily in debt, but the debt was hidden in various partnerships.  Eventually the house of cards caved in and Enron tanked.  Many Enron employees and investors literally lost most of their life savings. Enron’s connection to President ...

POWER FOR SALEEnron execs regularson Clinton trade trips Company gave $100,000 after Lay got seat on lucrative junket to India By Paul Sperry©&nbsp;2002&nbsp;WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON – "The Bush administration would like to downplay its intimate relationship with Ken Lay and Enron executives," Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif, recently charged. Waxman, the House Government Reform Committee's ranking Democrat, has been pressing for an investigation into contacts between Lay and White House officials to see if bankrupt Enron Corp. got special treatment. Lay, chairman of the Houston-based energy giant, "has had unlimited access to the administration," Waxman complained. While that may be true, the ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, December 14, 2001 HOUSTON – Enron Corp. (NYSE: ENE) today explained basic facts about its 401K savings plan. This explanation is being provided to correct numerous inaccurate news reports and statements from plaintiffs’ attorneys over the past several days. When companies change the administrator of a 401K program, a temporary shutdown, typically lasting several weeks, is required to allow employee account information to be accurately and completely transferred to the new administrator. In February of 2001, in order to improve its 401K plan, Enron requested proposals from third-party benefits firms to take over administration of its ...

ON JULY 5, 1995, Enron Corporation donated $100,000 to the Democratic National Committee. Six days later, Enron executives were on a trade mission with Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor to Bosnia and Croatia. With Kantor's support, Enron signed a $100 million contract to build a 150-megawatt power plant. Enron, then a growing giant in energy trading, practically had a reserved seat on Clinton administration trade junkets. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, who egregiously linked political donations to government assistance, accompanied Enron chairman Ken Lay on a mission to India. Enron president Joseph Sutton was on the trip to Bosnia during which Brown ...

<p>WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department disclosed Friday that Energy giant Enron Corp. asked the Bush administration to intervene with banks as it was hurtling toward bankruptcy last year.</p> <p>Enron President Lawrence "Greg" Whalley called Treasury Undersecretary Peter Fisher "six to eight times" in late October and early November, said department spokeswoman Michele Davis.</p>

US politicians spent yesterday trying to digest the implications of the sudden chill wind blowing from Texas and threatening the warm adulation in which President Bush has bathed for the past four months. In a small way, January 11 could also be a turning point. The Enron Corporation's collapse a month ago was overshadowed by the noise of collapsing Taliban. But this week's announcement that a criminal inquiry will be held into its failure, and the political consequences for the White House, have swept the war out of the headlines. Further details of the dealings between Enron and the Bush ...

There are two distinct aspects to the Enron mess; the political mudslinging, and the criminal fraud aspects of the case as pertains to the company and its auditors, Arthur Anderson. Oddly, in all the verbiage that has been written to date, very little has been written that begins to explain the TRUE nature of the financial fraud at Enron. More oddly, it is not that difficult to understand. For those who would like some insight, I will attempt to clarify, in lay terms, three points which, I believe, will ultimately be crucial as the investigations commence. So, if you'd like ...

As good citizens, I am sure all of you would like to join me in helping Congressman Henry Waxman (RAT-CA) investigate Enron. On his site, he is asking for Enron tips. I am sure he would like to know about Bob Rubin's attempted influence. He would like to know about Ron Brown. He would like to know about Bill Richardson. I am not suggested that he be spammed or FReeped. Just provide him with factual information which will help the investigation. I think you know what to do. Perhaps it would be better to cut and paste the link rather ...