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I'm going to get the nine billion dollars

teaming up with Blockbuster to deliver movies on demand.

you don't think it's accurate

Arthur Andersen,

When Enron announced its latest plan to trade weather,

I can't for the life of me see what basis she

We know all of the California load.

every week you have to come up with new ideas.

from smelling the strippers' perfume on you?

The merger with PGE put Enron in the electricity business.

but we're managing them.

But in the end, I couldn't prove that

We are the good guys. We are on the side of angels.

If we shut it down,

there would be some things that I don't know

But in other places in the world, in India,

Now, a high school student can figure out that.

that would be successful terminating 15 percent

going through the various aspects of the company's business.

You know, we can sit and think about what strange insecurities

which is, of course, exactly what happened.

and regulations of government.

all the various lies and artifices

The quality is great and the customers like this,

and I feel like I'm being consumed by this company.'

This manifested itself in trips that Jeff Skilling led

we could see the stock price double

kind of surreal day.

Enron is a company...

if they think it will get them to the trough sooner.'

the authority and the resources to

financial condition.

Muckleroy hopped on the next plane to New York.

'Ask Why' and the sign said 'ask why asshole.'

You know, that's a whole 'nother ball of wax

in California to give the state

then it's a good thing he quit his day job

Morgan, Citibank

Let me interrupt you. Our chief financial officer

tapped to run the EES business.

make phone calls for Ken Lay.

really shouldn't get involved. This is California's problem.

People pressured by the need to keep the stock price up

Lou Pai became the second largest landowner in Colorado.

That's our vision.

the professor asked him if he was smart.

now there is none.

Mr. Lay, do you have anything to say, sir?

Not when they're exposed from the outside.

The year-long energy crisis would cost

sold the power at reasonable prices to consumers

Enron's stock began to fall.

because people perceive it as a story

A flurry of buy-outs in the corporate world...

The ability for a 25 year old to go in

Behind Fastow's partnerships

he knew what was coming.

And all we know is, they're always good.'

and pensions and then it peaked.

playing on Wall Street's greed,

'oh, we didn't know anything.'

But he had one specific condition

to a group of Merrill Lynch bankers.

In the case of Cliff Baxter, the company's chief dealmaker

great quarter and a great year in India.

Damn expensive to the customers.

the people who are strong will stick around.

Ah... at this time there has been a suicide note located.

The auditors adamantly told Mr. Ken Lay

Beyond the financial issues,

that we conduct as a company.

bennett when bottom text

back that Enron,

you know the staid pipeline in the ground and...

you're fucking the gas station attendant? '

But there was one episode, early on,

And then it just started going down,

and let them just have a quote free market

You think so? I think.

His job was to cover up the fact

Well, you all did it again.

and estimated how much they, the two rogue executives made

Government is not the solution to our problem.

while I was very young probably two, three years old.

who ran the west coast trading desk.

I'd ever had with Jeff.

Get rid of them and you know what,

they could do it.

But how do you keep your wife

California's Electric Utilities

because I thought,

calling publicly an investor an asshole? '

And there's this competition with the news...

I mean every one was so excited and then came the champagne

When you see two or three energy companies

EES was headed for a crash landing.

buy recommendation and loves us at the same time

Very amiable, fun, man's man.

Can you believe that?

Those guys at the flip of a switch

They had a very strained personal relationship

Government is the problem.

Instead, Enron sent a telex to Borget:

I, personally, am convinced

I can get out now and this company

and help her understand the questions that she was asking.

What I wish, I, you know, in retrospect?

Mr. Skilling a massive earthquake

It was something new.

With the media hounding him

And I was trying in the early days

by the way, everything is going to be just fine.

You know, I couldn't believe that

will help people memorize lists.

under the United States Constitution.

It's gone. It's gone.

not only took part in Enron's deceptive practices,

in compensation, in stocks

That what I was doing was, in fact,

ten times your original investment.

Because I had told him myself.

You know, you can gain the whole world

we would not have engaged in these transactions with Enron.

It's very hard for me to talk about Cliff.

The trips were legend.

Of course, we had blackouts in December.

If you think of the banks involved Chase,

Is it your contention that you knew of it

in the Enron candy jar without an explicit

We were very close for many years.

I think Jeff Skilling is really a tragic figure,

Main Street here and all throughout the city

A little later today I will.

but at times designed, advanced and profited from them.

with its bold move into broadband,

Andy put me in charge of this asset listing.

We have traders here from Enron

When Jeff Skilling applied to Harvard Business School,

It's the fucking coolest thing I've done in a long time.

What about Vincent and Elkins,

Dave, old buddy, let me just tell you.

very blunt would tell Skilling whatever

the news magazines have, where one says something good,

over there at the bank, George.

or inappropriateness of the transactions

a confidential memo surfaced revealing the names of

I guess it all came crashing down on him.

Indeed I think the worst of that's behind us.

We're talking about a commodity that

It is in Enron's best interest,

it was in the interest of the shareholders of the company.

there were of evil people.

You know, Where there was once great pride,

At the very moment Ken Lay was talking to employees,

but they don't have to show the debt on the balance sheet.'

You must continue. Go on, please.

for any of us involved.'

there was definitely a lot of excitement in the air.

The truth was that Enron was just struggling

involved the misappropriation of moneys by two traders.