Ken Lay-Cheney Memo: WH Used Recommendations for Energy Plan

[Zorra]

The link below is a PDF file from the House of Representatives which shows that the Bu$h administration adopted seven of eight Enron recommendations in it's energy plan.

These recommendations were listed in a memo given to VP Dick Cheney by Ken Lay when the two met on April 17, 2001, to discuss energy policy.

It sure looks like Bu$h and Cheney were in Enron's pocket.

http://www.house.gov/reform/min/pdfs/pdf_inves/pdf_energy_cheney_recs_fact_sheet.pdf

[DeepModem Mom]

1. Minority Staff,HR Comm.,Govt. Reform -- please send to Kerry campaign...

and thanks for posting, Zorra!

[No Mandate Here.]

2. ...and to [e-mail] and [e-mail]

This needs to be run up the tallest flagpole. WHere did you find it?

[Zorra]

4. Found it here:

http://www.llrx.com/features/enron.htm

After doing mass research on this subject, I have no choice but to believe that Cheney and Bu$h deliberately served corporate purposes by not intervening in the California energy crisis, and, IMO, willfully and knowingly did severe damage to the People of the United States by serving these corporate purposes.

Here are more very revealing sources of information regarding the Ken Lay, Dick Cheney, and George W. Bu$h connection.

http://dukeemployees.com/deregulation1.shtml

http://www.bear-left.com/Enron.html

[spooky3]

6. Krugman's talking about Enron today...(link inside)

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/13/opinion/13KRUG.html

[No Mandate Here.]

7. Good stuff as always,

but this says even more. I started a thread yesterday about Kerry and Edwards lurking among us (I am sure that there are senior advisors- at least) It wouldn't surprise me if Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman are here, also.

Prove me right, Paul. Publish a column about this Waxman memo.

[sallyseven]

3. Will the regular (bush lovers)

Press do that. I don't think so.

[DeepModem Mom]

8. Heck, no! Too lazy, don't care --

[Zorra]

9. Looks like JK's campaign manager, Mary Beth Cahill, is on it

This is from another thread

For Immediate Release
July 13, 2004
Kerry Campaign Urges BC04 to Release Documents Relating to Bush's Performance in Office
Washington, DC - Kerry-Edwards campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill today sent the following letter to Bush Cheney '04 Campaign Manager Ken Mehlman in response to a letter Mehlman sent yesterday:
"July 13, 2004

Ken Mehlman
Campaign Manager
BUSH-CHENEY '04, Inc.
P.O. BOX 10648
Arlington, VA 22210

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The Cheney Energy Task Force: For an Administration that claims to hate lawsuits, it's ironic that the Bush White House is taking up the Courts' time to keep the fact that Ken Lay and Enron wrote its energy policy in secret behind closed doors. Please release the documents so that the country can learn what lobbyists and special interests wrote the White House energy policy.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x577516

[faithnotgreed]

5. kick for truth

[Zorra]

10. They are hiding documents that belong to the People of the US.

[faithnotgreed]

11. who would hide what and how the admin makes our policy??? sigh

[oasis]

12. kickeroo

[dusty64]

13. I've seen a LOT more about

Martha Stewart lately than *'s buddy kenny boy.

[Zorra]

14. Why Was Martha Stewart Prosecuted?

Sunday :: March 07, 2004
Why Was Martha Stewart Prosecuted?
by TChris
snip
As the Times points out, Stewart was essentially convicted of lying about a stock trade that saved her about $45,000. Small potatoes compared to the allegations made against Tyco's Dennis Kozlowski, Enron's Jeffrey Skilling or WorldCom's Bernard Ebbers, who reportedly "defrauded investors, stole tens of millions of dollars or drove their companies into the ground, or some combination of the three."
snip
Ms. Stewart's supporters have contended that the decision to prosecute her was motivated by the desire to take down a popular and very public female chief executive. Some say she became a target for prosecution because she supported members of the Democratic Party; others say she simply was not part of an old-boy network.
snip
Mary Becker, a law professor at DePaul, says Stewart was "a wonderful target to show that the administration is serious about fraud. ... Lots of publicity doesn't disturb any of the old boys or anybody who made a significant amount of money."

http://talkleft.com/new_archives/005557.html

Here's some info from forensic accountants on some of the questionable things that Ken Lay allegedly did at Enron.

Learning from the Enron Case
By Steven D. Grossman, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Texas A&M University; Nicholas G. Apostolou, DBA, DABFA, Cr.FA, CPA, Louisiana State University, Department of Accounting; and D. Larry Crumbley, Ph.D., DABFA, Cr.FA, CPA, Louisiana State University, Department of Accounting
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When Jeffrey K. Skilling suddenly resigned on Aug. 14, 2001, a clear red flag, the company’s chairman, Kenneth L. Lay, retook the job saying, “absolutely no accounting issue, no trading issue, no reserve issue, no previously unknown problem issues” were behind the departure. On Aug. 21, Mr. Lay sent an e-mail to employees, reassuring them about the stability of the company and concluding, “one of my highest priorities is to restore investor confidence in Enron. This should result in a significantly higher stock price.”

On Aug. 22, Ms. Sherron Watkins, a vice president of corporate development, met with Mr. Lay and gave him a seven-page letter in which she said that Enron may be an “elaborate accounting hoax.” In an online chat with employees on Sept. 26, Mr. Lay said that Enron stock is a good buy and that the company’s accounting methods are “legally and totally appropriate.”

On Oct. 16, Enron reported a third-quarter loss of $618 million. One day later, the company reduced shareholder equity by $1.2 billion to account for transactions involving Enron and some partnerships created by Andrew S. Fastow, Enron’s chief financial officer. On Oct. 22, the Securities and Exchange Commission opened an inquiry into the partnerships. On Oct. 23, in a conference call, Mr. Lay reassured investors that there was no conflict of interest resulting from the transactions with the partnerships. Directors, he stated, “continue to have the highest faith and confidence” in Mr. Fastow. The next day, Mr. Fastow was fired.
(more)
http://www.acfei.com/ce-enron-case.php

[whistle]

15. Is this the smoking gun that gets Cheney dumped....

...Cheney for the Enron and Haliburton scandals, Rumsfeld for the Abu Graiba prison scandals, Rice for being a total screw-off do nothing shill for the Bushies, Collen Powell because that bastard knew that going into Iraq was wrong and he lied to everyone and backed Bush anyway and Bush.....because we can vote him out on Nov 2!

[Zorra]

17. They may be so confident in their ability to circumvent any process of

justice that they do not feel that Cheney needs to go. We have already repeatedly experienced complete republican disregard for morals, ethics, and democracy in their pursuit of a one party state.

IMO, they will do anything, no matter how unethical, to retain power.

When considering the utter lack of morality displayed by this PNAC administration and many republican legislators, with regard to political strategies, actions, and concern for human life, what would be the most effective action that would guarantee a Bu$h victory in the November Presidential Election?

[Doosh]

16. this is the beginning of the end for Cheney