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• Ken Rice: Man on the Edge

  
  cara ellison — Authority: 127
  I began to write about Enron to discover the truth about the company, and to tell others. I knew that I would need educations in law, business, and natural gas, but one discipline that I did not realize I’d need was psychology. I don’t pretend to be able to analyze the executives of Enron, but I do find myself ...
  6 hours ago

• Madoff in the news

  
  BEANIEVILLE - a day trading, swing trading and investing blog — Authority: 140
  Bernie Madoff is now back in prison after being hospitalized due to a fall from his bed. He was earlier thought to have been beat assaulted. Hell be in the news for awhile, being the biggest Ponzi artist the world has ever known. Even the Chinese knows him, and an artist has Madoff on display at an art gallery.
  7 hours ago

• Review of the decade: fallen financial stars of 2000-09

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 964
  The Noughties was a decade when a number of businessmen had their reputations shredded. Here are 10 who went from hero to zero.
  21 hours ago

• Dominic Cooke interview

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 964
  Dominic Cookes tenure as artistic director at the Royal Court has seen two consecutive productions commissioned by his predecessor, Enron and Jerusalem, transfer to the West End.
  21 hours ago

• Far Worse Than a Big Zero

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 489
  Joseph Palermo: We can call the 2000s the "Worse Than Zero" decade or the "Big Zero," or anything we wish, but what characterized it most for me was the near total control of corporations, especially... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  1 day ago

• Enron Milestones of 2009

  
  cara ellison — Authority: 127
  We are within Frisbee distance of 2010. As I look backward at 2009, I feel a great deal of satisfaction that some progress has been made, but mostly a great weariness that the Enron prosecutions continue. At the very top of the list, Scott Yeager won at the Supreme Court and was later completely exonerated by the ...
  1 day ago

• The Honest Services of Jeff Skilling and the TSA

  
  cara ellison — Authority: 127
  Our Glorious TSA , a post on Volokh Conspiracy, is a great read, and there was a truly intriguing comment: If I were granted a monopoly on offering a specific service, and then I pretended to offer it far more than actually offering it, would that be honest services fraud? Certainly it does seem to be a scheme to ...
  1 day ago

• Joe Hirko Enters Prison

  
  cara ellison — Authority: 127
  Joseph Hirko entered prison today to begin serving his sixteen month sentence after pleading guilty to approving a press release that contained no controversial information at all. Mr. Hirko is not guilty, but he chose this path for the benefit of his family, who was exhausted after eight years of being pursued by ...
  1 day ago

• Sherron Watkins Giving Talk At Renaissance Weekend

  
  cara ellison — Authority: 127
  Business and intellectual elite from around the country are descending on the South Carolina coast for the annual Renaissance Weekend. The 29th version of the annual gathering gets under way Tuesday in Charleston. Former U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain Phil Lader hosts the event. He says about 1,000 people are ...
  1 day ago

• Lucy Prebble interview for Enron

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 964
  A notorious financial scandal has inspired one of our hottest new playwrights, Lucy Prebble.
  1 day ago

• Today In Enron History

  
  cara ellison — Authority: 127
  On December 29, 1999 Enron and Merrill Lynch finalized their written agreement concerning the Nigerian barge deal. The Nigerian Barge deal entailed Enron selling to Merrill Lynch its interest in Nigerian barges. Enron bought them back six month later, and then sold them to another company. The government alleges ...
  2 days ago

• The Seven Prosecutors Of Rex Shelby

  
  cara ellison — Authority: 127
  As Rex Shelby awaits a ruling from Judge Gilmore for his motion to dismiss, he is the last Enron man standing (three Nigerian Barge / Merrill Lynch defendants continue to wend through the justice system.) Since he was indicted in 2003, Rex Shelby has beat or exhausted six previous DOJ/FBI teams (not to mention three ...
  2 days ago

• Enron Owned Wind Turbine Has Crashed In NY

  
  cara ellison — Authority: 127
  A 187-ton wind turbine in upstate New York fell to the ground yesterday, December 27, for no apparent reason. The turbine was owned by Enron Corp. before GE bought the unit out of bankruptcy in 2002. The cause of the collapse is being investigated by teams from Fairfield-based General Electric Co. and Enel North ...
  2 days ago

• Op-Ed Columnist: The Big Zero

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Paul Krugman
  3 days ago

• The New Life Of The Giant E

  
  cara ellison — Authority: 127
  A few weeks ago, I was at the Four Seasons. While there, I found myself pleasantly engaged in a conversation with a front-desk guy. He asked what I did, and I told him I was a writer. “What are you writing about?” he asked. “Enron.” His eyes lit up. “I’ll tell you something if you promise not to ...
  3 days ago

• Today In Enron History

  
  cara ellison — Authority: 127
  December 28, 2005, Chief Accounting Officer Rick Causey pleaded guilty to securities fraud in exchange for a prison term of five years. Causey said that he knew Enron’s presentation about its new EBS business at the January 20, 2000 conference was designed to, and likely would, cause an immediate increase in ...
  3 days ago

• Not Quite The Smartest Guys in the Room

  
  The Devoted Intellect — Authority: 127
  In 2001, Enron, after being named “America’s Most Innovative Company” by Fortune magazine six times , collapsed. How could something like this happen? How is it possible to hide hundreds of millions of dollars worth of losses?? And what is a “financial derivative” — that thing that played such a large ...
  4 days ago

• Op-Ed Contributors: The Decade We Had

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Ten writers on the moments and events that will be remembered as the portents of America’s future.
  4 days ago

• Andy Fastow Possibly Released

  
  cara ellison — Authority: 127
  I have heard – though I can not confirm – that Andy Fastow has been released from prison and is now at a halfway house. The BOP website still lists Andy being at Florence. I won’t bother to try and confirm his move until at least the beginning of the year. If this is true, that means he’s out two years ...
  6 days ago

• Sonia Friedman: Im not one of the top female producers - Im one of the top producers

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 964
  Sonia Friedman, the formidable producer behind the West Ends latest hit musical, Legally Blonde - which took more than £2million in advance ticket sales - says that despite the recession, business in theatreland is booming
  1 week ago

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