enron context

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  • Enron Context
    • Mark to market accounting
      • Enron first non financial company to use this
      • ""If you accelerate your income, then you have to keep doing more and more deals to show the same or rising income."[
      • sherron Watkins
        • "He’s the one that cooked the books"
          • Fastow
    • Jonestown massacre
      • "you've drank the Kool-Aid"
        • cyanide in koolaid
      • peoples temple, lead by jim jones
      • 1978 November 18 918 people died
      • "revolutionary suicide"
      • thought of as suicide but now a mass murder as people were under duress
    • 1998 analyst tour of enron
      • corruption
      • Skilling had moved other employees to the office from other departments (instructing them to pretend to work hard)
    • Arthur andersen
      • obstructing  cause of justice
        • shredding the thousands of documents and deleting e-mails and company files that tied the firm to its audit of Enron
          • supreme court overturned ruling so he got away
    • Bush
      • ken lay gave 140 000 to fund bush election
      • vice president cheney met with enron after 2001 election to discuss energy
      • Bush called ken lay Kenny boy
      • enron were Bush's top donor
      • enron gave over $600 000 political donations
      • "In the corporate world, sometimes things aren’t exactly black and white"

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