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Kenneth Lay, Enron's former chairman, died of a heart attack in 2006, one month after his career ended with a criminal conviction for lying to investors about the company's finances. 'Birds aren't ...
Public documents show that the Enron trademark, including the color scheme and logo, were bought in 2020 for $275 by a company co-owned by a sartirical conspiracy theorist (Getty Images)
An elaborate parody appears to be behind an effort to resurrect Enron, the Houston-based energy company that exemplified the worst in American corporate fraud and greed after it went bankrupt in 2001.
Conspiracy of Fools tells the story of the 2001 collapse of Enron.Enron's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Andrew Fastow is depicted as voraciously greedy, using front corporations and partnerships, paying himself "management" and "consultant" fees as if he were an outsider, all while cooking Enron's books to show fictitious profits.
On August 15, 2001, Sherron Watkins, Vice President of Corporate Development at Enron, wrote an anonymous letter to Kenneth Lay sharing her concerns about the company's accounting practices, and cited Baxter's prior complaints to Jeffrey Skilling, Andrew Fastow, and other Enron executives regarding what he considered Enron's unethical and possible illegal transactions.
An Enron manual of ethics from July 2000, about a year before the company collapsed. Enron's complex financial statements were confusing to shareholders and analysts. [1]: 6 [10] When speculative business ventures proved disastrous, it used unethical practices to use accounting limitations to misrepresent earnings and modify the balance sheet to indicate favorable performance.
In the long history of financial frauds, Enron ranks near the top of the list, with the once high-flying energy trading company suddenly unraveling in a web of lies and accounting sleight-of-hand ...
Then Enron would sell the "excess" power to the state at a premium. "Ricochet": Also called "megawatt-laundering" (by analogy to money laundering ), Ricochet was the power equivalent of a land flip : buy in-state power cheaply, flip it out-of-state to an intermediary, then re-sell it to California at a highly inflated "imported" price.