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In 1997, Confederated Tribes of Warms Springs, Oregon, expressed their wish to gain control over the three Portland General Electric Co. hydropower dams on the Tribes' land in order to restore abandoned fish ladders. Enron owned PGE and "intended to keep the license". (Engineering News-Record, August 4, 1997) In early 2000, Enron Corp.'s Portland General Electric Co. agreed to sell stakes in its hydroelectric system over four decades to the Tribes, (Houston Chronicle, February 2, 2000) At the same time, Enron is in the process of selling it's interests in PGE to Sierra Pacific Resources. (Inside F.E.R.C.'s Gas Market Report, March 17, 2000)
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/01/26/enron.reed.cnna/
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(CNN) -- The White House acknowledged Friday that in 1997, as George W. Bush was deciding whether to run for president, his senior political adviser Karl Rove recommended GOP strategist Ralph Reed for a consulting job with Enron Corp. Reed, former head of the Christian Coalition, went to work for Enron as a strategist, making from $10,000 to $20,000 a month, according to The New York Times.
http://www.desmogblog.com/tim-phillips
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Century Strategies Lobbying Scandal
In 2005 and 2006, Ralph Reed and Century Strategies were embroiled in a federal lobbying scandal. In 2000, Century Strategies was contracted by lobbyist Jack Abramoff to generate anti-lottery grassroots support to in order to help promote and maintain the business interests of several of Abramoff's clients.
Century Strategies was hired by Abramoff to organize a coalition to block Native American tribes in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas from creating casinos—the proposed casinos would drive gamblers away from the casinos Abramoff's clients owned.
Reed, who has publicly called gambling a "cancer on the American politic," did not want to have any direct connection with this matter, so, he had his fees laundered through two companies. According to the Washington Post, Century Strategies was paid as much as $4 million for its work opposing several tribal casinos in southern states from 2001 to 2003.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2002/mar/24/enron.theobserver
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The firm that built the house of Enron
McKinsey refocused the energy firm. Now it fears collateral damage from the collapse, says Jamie Doward
Enron is the house that McKinsey rebuilt. The brightest minds at the world's most prestigious consulting firm helped turn the lumbering old-economy gas distribution dinosaur into a new-economy success story envied by every corporation in America. The transformation earned the McKinsey mob a strong following in Enron. 'I found them very bright thinkers and just good people,' recalls former Enron employee John Allario, founder of the satirical Enron site Laydoff.com. 'They took a very objective view of business. They could gauge the potential for success or failure pretty quickly.'
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2009/05/29/170792/afp-timphillips-astroturf/
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Notably, AFP was also instrumental in orchestrating the anti-Obama, anti-tax tea party protests in April.
With nearly 70 Republican operatives and former oil industry spokesmen working behind the scenes of AFP’s various fronts and disclosures that point to ever increasing oil and corporate donations to the group, one must wonder, who is guiding this massive front group factory? The answer is Tim Phillips, the President of AFP who has built a long career of inventing fake grassroots causes. In Phillips’ official biography, there appears to be over a 10 year gap — but that period was when Phillips developed his very first astroturf groups to do everything from smearing his opponents with anti-Semitic attacks to laundering money for criminal lobbyists.
Click More To Read The WonkRoom’s Investigation Of AFP’s Tim Phillips
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Ralph+Reed+made+big+bucks+from+Enron,+FEC+report+unveils.+(People+%26...-a0100545273
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The FEC looked into Reed's relationship with Enron as part of an investigation of President George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign. Conservative activist Larry Klayman Larry Klayman is the founder and chief representative of the Klayman Law Firm, which is based out of Miami, Florida and Washington D.C., although he is known chiefly as the founder and former Chairman of Judicial Watch, a public interest and non-profit law firm, which attained of Judicial Watch had asserted that Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney arranged for Enron to pay Reed while Bush used Reed as a political consultant. If true, the payments would have been a type of in-kind contribution from Enron to the Bush campaign and a possible violation of federal campaign laws.
The FEC dismissed Klayman's allegations, but in the ensuing investigation found that the ex-Christian Coalition head was paid much more by Enron than had previously been disclosed. In 1997, Reed's Atlanta-based Century Strategies received $200,000 from the failed energy corporation. In 2000, he received $75,000 from Enron and by 2001 was receiving $30,000 monthly plus expenses.
Reed supposedly received the money for providing "ongoing advice and counsel to Enron" about electricity deregulation Deregulation
The reduction or elimination of government power in a particular industry, usually enacted to create more competition within the industry.
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Traditional areas that have been deregulated are the telephone and airline industries. , although Reed has no background or special expertise in this area. The FEC also found that the terms Reed had with the company were extremely generous, permitting his consulting company Noun 1. consulting company - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee
consulting firm
business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a to keep getting paid even if it finished its work early.
The New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times reported last year that top Bush aide Karl Rove recommended that Enron hire Reed. The move was seen as a way to keep Reed in Bush's camp while at the same time avoiding having the Bush campaign hire him directly. Bush, who ran as a moderate, sought Reed's advice and valued his connections with religious conservatives but did not want to appear too close to him publicly.
Enron's collapse dominated headlines for weeks when it was revealed that the energy company paid top executives exorbitant salaries, inflated its stock values and looted employee retirement plans. Even as the company was spiraling downward, it continued paying Reed until it filed for bankruptcy late in 2001.
The FEC found that Reed did legitimate work for the company in 1997 but said in 1998 there was an "apparent lack of work for the money." Nevertheless, the FEC ruled that Reed's dealings with the company were legitimate and not an effort by the Bush campaign to hide a contribution.
Rove admits that he talked to someone at Enron about Reed but now says he cannot remember who it was or when it occurred. Enron lawyers asserted that no one at the firm recalls talking to Rove about hiring Reed.
The controversy hasn't slowed Reed's advancement. In February he announced that he was stepping down as chairman of the Republican Party of Georgia to work on Bush's reelection re·e·lect also re-e·lect
tr.v. re·e·lect·ed, re·e·lect·ing, re·e·lects
To elect again. campaign. Reed, who oversaw the election of a Republican governor and helped Republican Saxby Chambliss defeat incumbent Democrat Max Cleland for a U.S. Senate seat, said he enjoyed his tenure, but it was time to move on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabhol_Power_Company
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The Dabhol Power Company was a company based in India, formed to manage and operate the Dabhol Power Plant. The Dabhol plant was built through the combined effort of Enron, GE, and Bechtel. GE provided the generating turbines to Dabhol, Bechtel constructed the physical plant, and Enron was charged with managing the project through Enron International.
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/2/21/153014.shtml
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On the other hand, the Clinton administration made three loans between 1994 and 1998 to the now-defunct Dabhol power project in India. Ron Brown, Clinton's commerce secretary, bragged about the approval of the Dabhol loans during a trade mission to India in 1995, while Lay stood by his side.
The Times noted that the junket was "one of 11 Clinton trade missions provided at taxpayer expense for corporate executives from Enron and other companies." Moreover, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, which sponsored the trips, also coughed up $1 million in funding to study Enron energy projects in Russia, Eastern Europe and former Soviet states.
While Democrats go rooting around trying to find any single indication that Lay was somehow in cahoots with the Bush administration, evidence of his links to the Clinton administration is popping up all over the place.
http://www.smokershistory.com/LeMaistr.htm
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The Charles A. LeMaistre Page
Enron director was prime organizer of ACS, AHA, ALA et al. anti-smoking activities; was also involved in previous corporate looting
His connections with Congress undoubtably made him a major asset to Enron
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=477759&mesg_id=482070
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What do Enron, Jack Abramoff, and Ralph Reed Have in Common?
A match made in someplace other than heaven. K Street, maybeTom Baxter
Jim Galloway
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Published on: 02/06/06
Enron, meet Jack Abramoff. Jack Abramoff, meet Enron.
One year before the energy firm went belly up, paid adviser Ralph Reed urged Enron officials to hire Abramoff, then a rising Washington lobbyist, as a "kitchen cabinet" consultant.
The e-mailed endorsement resulted in clubby lunches in which Abramoff and Enron reps, future icons of scandal in Washington and on Wall Street, sat across the table from each other.
It's well-known that Reed worked for both Enron and Abramoff. That he helped them cross paths is not. The e-mail has never been published before.
Reed's plug for his old friend serves as further evidence his professional relationship with Abramoff was closer than Reed — a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor — cares to admit.
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http://www.smokershistory.com/Enron.htm
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The Enron Page
D. Ronald Daniel was Jeffrey Skilling's boss at McKinsey during the 1980s, when Skilling designed Enron's devious schemes. "Because of the work of Daniel and Skilling, McKinsey is now a defendant in the largest suit against Enron." (The Harvard Corporation, Elitewatch.com.) Daniel was a Trustee of the Naylor Dana Institute of the American Health Foundation between August 1975 and April 1981, while he was managing director of the New York Office of McKinsey & Co., Inc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Mark-Jusbasche
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Rebecca P. Mark-Jusbasche (born August 13, 1954 in Kirksville, Missouri) was famous as the head of the Enron International division of Enron. She later was promoted to Vice-Chairman of Enron, and resigned from the company in 2000 following the failure of a major investment.[1]
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