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23.01.02, 15:59
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GEORGE BUSH’S FRIENDS IN ENRON
The scandal around the bankruptcy of the energy company Enron obscured even the
news about the state of health of the American president, who had an incident
with a pretzel last week. The scandal with the energy company unveiled the
delicate details of the close relations between Vice President Dick Cheney and
George W. Bush himself with the head of the bankrupt company, Kenneth Lay, or
just Kenney-boy, as his friends call him.
What’s so surprising about it? There are so many of large companies going
bankrupt every day. But the problem is that Enron was the largest electric
power seller in the United States, the company was on the top ten list of the
leading American companies. The crash of such a giant corporation could not but
attract attention. However, the most important issue here is the methods, used
by the administration of the company for the business activity: these methods
are so very old – bribery and blackmail.
The management of the company was actually making the common attendants of the
corporation buy Enron’s shares, transferring the money from the accounts of the
pension funds. Nobody was protesting, the company was considered to be totally
reliable and stable. The analysts from the Wall Street were saying the same –
Enron was stable – but at the same time they were all selling Enron’s shares,
if they had any.
Furthermore, Kenney-boy was known as one of the most generous benefactors for
the pre-election campaigns of the republicans in Texas. Lay helped George W.
Bush and his father too. Enron spent $200 thousand for the inauguration
ceremony of George W. Bush; $30 thousand of that sum were given by the head of
the company himself. In addition to the close relations with the Bushes,
Kenneth Lay was staying in touch with the family of the incumbent Vice
President of the USA, Dick Cheney. Lay had several meetings with Cheney last
year, but we are not going to find out, what the subjects of their
conversations were. They certainly did not talk about the weather.
It should be mentioned here that the auditing procedures, which were carried
out by the world-known company Andersen, did not find any flaws in Enron’s
work. So the bankruptcy of the energy giant was a big surprise for everybody,
even for its employees.
The committee for the securities, several committees of the US Congress, FBI,
and the Ministry for Justice are currently involved in the investigation of the
reasons of the bankruptcy. American Attorney
General John Ashcroft announced that he was not going to be in charge of the
investigation, since he was also getting the financial help from Enron too.
President Bush is now forced to make excuses. He said, the Bushes family had
suffered from the bankruptcy of the company a lot too. President’s mother-in-
law invested over eight thousand dollars in Enron’s shares. In this case it
would be better for Bush to keep silence: some of the employees and
shareholders of the company had lost hundreds of thousands of dollars, so they
were not going to be sorry for Bush’s mother-in-law.
No matter what, but there is one thing clear in the story: the Democrats in the
Congress and in the Senate will get even with the Republicans about the scandal
with Monica Lewinsky. So corruption is always the same, no matter in which
country.
Vasily Bubnov
