Enron

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  • Et tu, National Review?

    Even conservative pundits are blasting the Bush administration for its Enron stonewalling.
    By Eric Boehlert January 29, 2002

  • Dick Cheney's bonehead Enron play

    The veep from Big Business just doesn't get it: Hiding behind executive privilege only reinforces the sense that he's hiding something smelly.
    By Scott Rosenberg January 29, 2002

  • How to be an Enron millionaire

    According to former colleagues, two executives reaped million-dollar windfalls by investing $6,000 apiece in the company's partnership scam. A case study in corporate rot.
    By Jake Tapper January 29, 2002

  • Class-action warrior

    When corporations run amok and accountants are shredding documents, who ya gonna call? Try lawyer Bill Lerach.
    By Michael Drummond January 28, 2002

  • Let the games begin!

    As both the House and Senate start their multiple queries into the collapse of Enron, the lead auditor takes the Fifth.
    By Jake Tapper January 25, 2002

  • Ex-Enron exec an apparent suicide

    Former vice chairman, a "family man" and a major Bush donor, was accused in civil suit of selling off stock worth $35.2 million.
    By Jake Tapper January 25, 2002

  • In the belly of the Enron beast

    The stock price was tanking and the company was coming unraveled -- but Chairman Ken's weekly message to workers at Enron's posh London office was, "Everything's fine." We believed him.
    By Peter Wright January 25, 2002

  • Enron-a-palooza!

    Grab your popcorn and your legal pads. Congress is set to kick off hours and hours of Enron hearings.
    By Jake Tapper January 24, 2002

  • Houston under siege

    Residents of Enron's hometown can't stop comparing the collapse of the energy trader to Sept. 11.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski January 24, 2002

  • Easy come, easy go

    One of the few Enron employees who still has a job expresses little regret -- even though he lost a "colossal" amount of money.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski January 23, 2002

  • Enron's human toll

    How employees of the energy trader got sucked into stock market euphoria -- and catastrophe.
    By Christopher Ketcham January 23, 2002

  • Capitalist pigs

    The sordid tales of Enron plutocrats looting the company of its treasure as their employees and shareholders faced ruin are enough to turn you into a class warrior.
    By Andrew Leonard January 19, 2002

  • More than one Enron official warned company about growing crisis

    One staff lawyer grew so worried, he secretly hired an outside law firm to review the company's murky business partnerships. Another executive was reassigned after raising alarms.
    By Jake Tapper January 18, 2002

  • If Enron isn't a political scandal, nothing is

    So what if Bush and company didn't bail out Enron? The outrage lies in what politicians did for the company on its way up, not the way down.
    By Scott Rosenberg January 18, 2002

  • 401 reasons to love Enron

    Employees of the energy trader are furious at the loss of their life savings, but the debacle could finally be the catalyst for long-needed retirement fund reform.
    By Damien Cave January 17, 2002

  • Enron's California smoking gun

    Did the Bush administration do the disgraced company's bidding during the state's electricity crisis?
    By Anthony York January 16, 2002

  • Ken Lay: "There are no accounting issues"

    Even as an executive was warning Enron's CEO of impending problems, he was telling the press that all was well.
    By Andrew Leonard January 15, 2002

  • A corporate welfare state nightmare

    The Enron scandal exposes how the U.S. political system is bought and paid for.
    By Julian Borger January 15, 2002

  • Getting to the bottom of Enron

    Sure, we need a special prosecutor -- but only campaign finance reform can clean up Washington's addiction to corporate cash and lift our government out of the muck.
    By Andrew Leonard January 12, 2002

  • Bush feeds the scandal

    The president's claim that Enron's chief supported his Texas opponent -- at best an evasion, at worst a lie -- drags the White House a step deeper into Enrongate.
    By Anthony York January 12, 2002

  • The Enron outrage

    Free-market ideologues said the energy titan's triumphs proved them right. Now they should admit its humiliating collapse proves they were wrong.
    By Thomas Frank December 14, 2001

  • Enron and the case for campaign finance reform

    As Bush's buddies file for Chapter 11, the debacle has exposed the unseemly link between money and political influence.
    By Arianna Huffington December 3, 2001

  • Will Bush be tarnished by Enron's collapse?

    The crash of his top corporate backer should discredit the president's anti-regulation economic policies, but it's unlikely to lead to reform.
    By Andrew Leonard November 30, 2001

  • Enron, we hardly knew ye

    Ironically, only one thing could have saved the now-imploding corporate poster child for deregulation: Tougher regulations requiring more financial "transparency."
    By Andrew Leonard November 9, 2001

  • Money can buy you love

    Peter Eisner of the Center for Public Integrity talks about "The Buying of the President 2000."
    By Alicia Montgomery January 10, 2000
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