What is Dick Cheney's connection/participation with Enron?
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Cheney does not have any real participation with Enron.  A Texas-based company, Enron obviously had some vested interests in supporting the Bush administration and its policies.  It lobbied and contributed to the Bush campaign, just like a lot of corporations do.  Cheney had no real or direct involvement in anything that Enron did, though.\n\nI've included a link from the Washington Post explaining that Enron was involved with Cheney's energy policy.  That, however, is not particularly unusual, since MANY corporations were involved with Cheney's energy policy and provided input.  I've also placed a link for an anti-Bush site highlighting some of the "connections" with Enron, if you'd prefer to look at that perspective.
980906
No, they are good friends.\n\nThe guy who got shot by Cheney donates big time to the Republican Party.\n\nJust a few superficial gunshots won't change that.\n\nThese are diehards!
1049564
Only the biggest sham in corporate history.\n\nI believe it was about inflating the shares through setting up companies that took the brunt of Enron's debts. Whilst making the investors believe there was none.
28029
I know that over the years PGE collected over $357 million for federal taxes and $35 million for state taxes from Oregon ratepayers and sent the money to Enron. Enron never paid a dime of it in taxes. In fact Enron paid NO federal taxes from 1998 to 2001. \nTo be profitable, how many billions did Enron rip off in Retirement funds? How many billions did it ripoff the ratepayers? Are you saying it's okay to steal, lie, and cheat as long as you pay taxes? How much did corporate profitability benefit the people who lost their life's savings? How much did it benefit the Californians who had their power blacked out to manipulate the market? How about the ratepayers that were overcharged? How profitable has Enron been since they declared bancruptcy? Sorry, I guess I'm answering your question with more questions.
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We gotta remember what this is all about really... Joe Wilson  was supposed to do the investigation into Niger's supposed uranium sales to Saddam, this was done at the request of the vice president's office. Wilson told the truth that the whole idea was a sham designed to build up reasons to invade the helpless Iraqis.  When Wilson failed, the Neo-cons outed his wife as punishment for disobeying.  After that, Cheney traveled repeatedly to the CIA during 2002. More than any other vice-president has EVER, basically to muscle those leftover after Plamegate to tow the line that Iraq had WMDs..All a lie, all a sham and Wilson is a patriot for telling the truth.  If only the troops had such courage, to stand up agains this lie, this sham of a war that they are fighting.  Only then could America have a restored honor, only then would the uniform mean something again.
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Hey, bigred, just because Cheney sold is halliburton stock doesn't mean he doesn't still collect is $5M per year pension from them.  Do your research.  \n\nDo all of you so-called conservatives sell your morals for money or do you give them away for free?
153895
They probably were hunting at a game ranch which doesn't allow dogs.  Cheney has a history of going to these ranches and so he can elsely shoot birds.  Other than that, the dogs were a casualty of previous hunts.
654633
I hope so they deserve it. I good movie you should watch is "Enron, The Smartest Guys In The Room". Its great. It shows how Enron Rise and Fell and it tells what Skilling and Lay and others did to keep it all under wraps.
426345
He was a former failed oil man himself...Cheny is a former employee of Enron...Condi was a former employee of Standard oil.
178050
The Vice President, currently Dick Cheney, is President of the U.S. Senate.
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It probably has strong ties to Cheney and Bush as Bush is into Oil and Halliburton is the Contractor for many installations and repairs.\nHalliburton has many levels grouped under HKBR and includes design firms to 3rd party inspection companies, so I'm sure it would hit a deadend somewhere before Cheney and his assistant Bush.
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HAHAHA....  yeah... Cheney has just worked four times harder than our lazy president... geez why doesn't he get off his butt and make a decent living... and it's all been only because of his hard work... it has nothing to do with the HUGE rise in Halliburton stock that has made him tens of millions over the past 6 years...
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BushCo. and the big businesses that have the INC. after their title.  have you ever seen the movie "Wag the Dog"?  watch that, and try to have a nice nights sleep afterwards.  Cheney has so many ties to the big oil business thats its a hard sell to not believe that this was an orchestrated event with our pseduoleaders involvment.  i honestly believe, and i hope i'm wrong, that there will be a big nasty event before november of this year.  dont forget, its re-election year, and the poll numbers dont look so good for the monied interests.  bush is so much of a crack head i dont know if he does know whats going on.  but cheney and the members of the P.N.A.C. (Project for the New American Century) are devious baddies who need to all rot in prison, along with their Mr. Ed (G.W.Bush).\n\naddition:  when osama hit the w.t.c. about 18 years ago, he was on tv within two hours saying he did it.  when osama hit the uss cole six years ago, he was on tv within two hours saying "i just blew up your battleship, what you gonna do"?  but with 911, no body claimed responsibility.  two months plus after the fact, this administration (BushCo.) said: "oh, we found out it was who we had thought it was, that evil guy osama".  thats convenient, now isn't it?  and so why are we in iraq again?
81386
Ask VP Dick Cheney for that one.
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Cheney, who served as CEO from 1995 to 2000, continues to receive as much as $1 million a year in deferred compensation as Halliburton executives enjoy a seat at the table during Administration discussions over how to handle post-war oil production in Iraq.But the Halliburton story is more than just a simple revolving door tale. Even without the Cheney conflicts of interest, serious doubts remain about whether a company with a record like Halliburton's should even be eligible to receive government contracts in the first place. This, after all, is a company that has been accused of cost overruns, tax avoidance, and cooking the books and has a history of doing business in countries like Iraq, Iran and Libya.If Cheney did any soul-searching after dealing with authoritarian dictators and avoiding taxes, it certainly didn't affect his social circle. He continued his quest for power by helping to form the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) in 1997 along with a bunch of archconservative hawks such as Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and Jeb Bush (the President's brother and governor of Florida). This organization's purpose is to ensure America's global dominance through strategic use of its military.
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what Cheney has been doing, first as Secretary of Defense, then since 2001, and still today, has been to work to take the power of government away from the nation-state, and transfer that power to shoot to financier interests owned and used by the imperialist financier class. What Cheney has done to that effect, is therefore far worse than treason.\n\nRid ourselves of his position in government, urgently, now, while you still may, and restore the military, intelligence, and police functions of the nation back into the hands of constitutional government. Reverse immediately all legislation and other actions which perpetuate what is the intrinsic corruption associated with the legacy of the functional relations among Cheney, Rumsfeld, George Pratt Shultz, Halliburton, and Bechtel.
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Yes.  Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling put Enron out of business.  Their behavior not only affected Enron's employees but brought about even more scrutiny of large corporations by the SEC.\n\nMartha Stewart's conviction and jail term sent stock in her company way down, but due to her well-timed release and her activities since, the company has made even more money.