Enron plaintiffs ask Bush to back 3rd-party suits

[Enrique]

Source: Reuters

http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=fundsFundsNews&storyID=2007-07-31T144349Z_01_N31226310_RTRIDST_0_VONAHN-ENRON-THIRDPARTY.XML&pageNumber=0&imageid=∩=&sz=13&WTModLoc=InvArt-C1-ArticlePage2

WASHINGTON, July 31 (Reuters) - Former Enron Corp. shareholders on Tuesday called on the White House to support their efforts to hold third parties accountable when their actions help a company defraud investors.

In a last-ditch attempt to get the administration to back their effort to have the U.S. Supreme Court allow shareholders to sue third parties, the group of former Enron shareholders have written to President George W. Bush.

"As victims of the Enron fraud, the worst in American history, we respectfully ask for your support at a critical moment in our pursuit of justice," says the letter signed by more than a dozen former shareholders.

The letter asks the administration not to file a brief on behalf of defendants accused of wrongdoing in an upcoming Supreme Court case involving Charter Communications (CHTR.O: Quote, Profile , Research) and Scientific Atlanta.

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[acmavm]

1. Good luck with that one folks!

[Tyler Durden]

2. THOSE folks are living in dreamland.

Sort of like Native Americans asking Custer to stop those pesky settlers.

Hello?

[SpiralHawk]

3. "Let me check in with Kenny Boy and get back to you." - Commander AWOL

"It might take a couple of days for me to get through to my intimate republicon crony, Kenny Boy, at his OTHERWORLD hidey hole (smirk, smirk) in the Bahamas, so in the meantime why don't all you Little People just shut up and sit down. Smirk, smirk, smirk."

- Commander AWOL