does anyone know if there are other law firms that was involved with the enron scandal besides vison and elkin
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check out the recently released book "conspiracy of fools". it's got allll the info you need.
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Try the Louisiana Bar Association.
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Corporate tax frauds. They even do that when most don't even pay taxes! Oh, they can write off fines paid to the US Government.!\n\nHere is A through H  You tell me?\n\nABB\n\n \n\nABB Vetco Gray\nABB Vetko UK\n 2004\n $5,900,000\n\n \n\n$10,500,00\n "Swiss engineering company ABB Ltd. and two of its subsidiaries agreed Tuesday to pay a total of $16.4 million to settle U.S. criminal and civil charges alleging they bribed government officials in Nigeria, Angola and Kazakhstan. The company paid more than $1.1 million through U.S.-based and foreign subsidiaries for the purpose of "obtaining and retaining business," federal officials claimed. U.S. authorities said ABB settled a civil suit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by agreeing to pay $5.9 million in "disgorgement and prejudgment interest" to the Securities and Exchange Commission and change its business practices. SEC officials said ABB notified the government of the violations and cooperated in the investigation. Simultaneously, subsidiaries ABB Vetco Gray, based in Houston, and ABB Vetco UK, based in Aberdeen, Scotland, appeared in U.S. District Court in Houston and agreed to pay a total fine of $10.5 million, the Department of Justice said. The fines came after each company was convicted of two counts of violating the bribery section of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act." (Feds fine ABB $16M in bribery case, By Leticia Williams, CBS.MarketWatch.com, July 6, 2004).\n \nAbbott Laboratories\n 1999\n $100,000,000\n "[R]ecord fine of $100 million to the Food and Drug Administration to settle a long-running investigation into the company's manufacturing plant in Lake County, Ill. Abbott also agreed to remove 125 products from the market and stop making them. (Abbott to Pay $622 Million to Settle Inquiry Into Marketing, By Gardiner Harris, New York Times, June 27, 2003).\n \nAbbott Laboratories\n 2003\n $622,000,000\n "Abbott Laboratories said yesterday that it planned to pay $622 million to settle an investigation into sales practices for liquids needed to feed the seriously ill. The company said in a statement that it would take a charge of 34 cents a share in the second quarter to cover a settlement of a "previously disclosed civil and criminal investigation" of its Ross Products division. Abbott earned $592.3 million, or 38 cents a share, in the second quarter of last year. Melissa Brotz, an Abbott spokeswoman, declined yesterday to discuss details of the investigation, which was disclosed in August 2001. At the time, news reports described it as focusing on marketing tactics in which the company gave tubes and pumps used to deliver liquid food directly into patients' digestive tracts in exchange for large orders of the liquids. Some of the hospitals and nursing homes that received the free equipment were suspected of billing Medicaid and Medicare, the government health insurance programs for the poor and the elderly, for the tubes and pumps, according to the reports." (Abbott to Pay $622 Million to Settle Inquiry Into Marketing, By Gardiner Harris, New York Times, June 27, 2003).\nOn Oct. 3, 2001, TAP Pharmaceutical Products, a joint venture of Abbott and Tadeka Chemical Industries, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and paid $875 million - still the record for a health fraud fine - to settle accusations related to its marketing of the cancer drug Lupron. TAP was accused of giving Lupron to doctors who the company knew would bill Medicaid and Medicare for the cost of the drug. SEE TAP PHARMACEUTICAL.\n \nAbbott Laboratories\n 2005\n $18,000,000\n "Abbott Laboratories and Geneva Pharmaceuticals Inc. have agreed to a $30.7 million nationwide settlement to refund customers and third-party payers in 18 states who claimed that the two companies had conspired to engage in anticompetitive conduct selling a drug that treats hypertension and enlarged prostate. The settlement agreement,
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I have a lawyer on retainer for the law suit I will file against Absolut and Crown Royal. I have also have my doctor documenting the impacts my "social drinking' is having on my health. This way I can sue them for more drinking money. I have also invested heavy in their stock so my dividends can be used cab fare. LOL to the bank and rehab
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Ken Lay and Jeff Skiling will definitely  be pardoned. Who bought the naming rights to George Bush's baseball team the Rexas Rangers, and who was his 5th largest campaign contributor? Answer to both ENRON with Ken Lay as Chairman of the board an Jeff Skiling as "CEO". They bought the rights to be pardoned.
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Convictions, too high a profile case and the evidence is too damning. In the Scrushy case it was debatable whether or not he was bilking Healthosout or just living it up and being irresponsible. Enron and the partnerships was fraud from the beginning.
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The Enron story would be a good example of how hiding the truth caused enormous troubles for investors as well as employees.
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Enron  General electric, Saudiis Some Jewish corporations etc etc. I dont know. Many War industries.....
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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.
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Criminal lawyers and Corporate lawyers. I don't exactly know if there are more than two.
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They passed the Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002. (Also called SOX) It requires a lot more paperwork & indepthness. It's purpose is to protect shareholders and increased accuracy on financial statements. The problem that still remains is "crooked" accountants that help these corporations cover up thier illegal activities.
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In 2002 the firm voluntarily surrendered its firm licenses to practice as Certified Public Accountants in the U.S. as a result of prosecution by the U.S. Department of Justice connected with the Enron scandal.\n\nOn June 15, 2002, Andersen was convicted of obstruction of justice for shredding documents related to its audit of Enron. Since the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission does not allow convicted felons to audit public companies, the firm agreed to surrender its licenses and its right to practice before the SEC on August 31.\n\nOn May 31, 2005, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously overturned Andersen's conviction due to flaws in the jury instructions. In the court's view, the instructions allowed the jury to convict Andersen without proving that the firm knew it broke the law or that there was a link to any official proceeding that prohibited the destruction of documents. The opinion was also highly skeptical of the government's definition of "corrupt persuasion" — persuasion with an improper purpose even without knowing an act is unlawful.\n\nDespite this ruling, it is highly unlikely Andersen will ever return as a viable business. The firm lost nearly all of its clients when it was indicted, and there are over 100 civil suits pending against the firm related to its audits of Enron and other companies. It began winding down its American operations after the indictment. From a high of 28,000 employees in the US and 85,000 worldwide, the firm is now down to around 200 based primarily in Chicago. Most of their attention is on handling the lawsuits.
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Dear Ms. Kitty,\n\nNo I do not believe Worldcom and Enron would still be around. The internal policies set in place at both those Fortune 500 companies are no different then any other company, in fact they were actually more stringent then most. If the internal policies failed then that would mean that every company that has more lenient policies should have gone out of business. The failure was caused by two things. \n1). The unethical actions of a few.\n2). The regulatory system that took sanctions against the company as a whole, which resulted in the closure of the company, opposed to the few that broke the law and their direct superiors that aloud the corruption to happen.\n\nTo give you a comparison Enron employs X thousand people, more people then a small to medium town. This would be like shutting down an entire town because one person or a select few decided to rob a bank in that town, and the town didn't have enough internal processes (police force or strict punishments) to prevent this from occuring. The SEC punished the entire town (thousands of lost jobs) instead of punishing the corrupt few.\n\nWelcome to politics, where politicians use the media to develop the reality for politcal gain. It's a lot bigger news story to be the politician that took down an entire "corrupt company" then the politician that got a couple of people fired because they stole from the shareholders.
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It is a fact that the energy policy of the current administration was formulated in closed meetings with VP Cheney and executives of Enron and a few other energy companies. Executive privilege has been invoked to prevent release to congress of the details of those meetings. The new democratic congress will no doubt launch an investigation to try to learn exactly what went on and if there was any wrong-doing by the administration.  \n\nThe SEC and the accounting profession, in the form of independent auditors, are supposed to insure that the annual financial statements of public companies fairly represent the actual operating results and financial condition of those companies. In the cases of Enron, Global com, Global Crossing and a few others, those financial statements were seriously misstated and not caught by the auditors or the SEC. Wrong doing and negligence were at the bottom of those failures. I was so disgusted at the failure of the accounting profession, that I resigned from the AICPA - the professional society that oversees accounting and auditing standards.
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This is nothing.  Just wait until you see the HUGE long list of Presidential pardons he will spew out in the last few days of his presidency.  I bet on that list will be all the Enron executives and all the crooked corporate executives who robbed and cheated their way into millions of dollars of shareholders' money. The stuff he is trying to push through Congress before he is tossed out will be nothing by comparison. Expect to see hundreds of criminals get presidential pardons in the final hours of his term in office.
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you can go to the chamber of commerce office and to the local Court information office or library and ask to the information desk if they allow you to see the list of the companies that have a suit problem or are having a demanding process for the unethical act. Also you can go your local university library and ask if you can consult the law intranet page so you will find a lot of good resource about the companies that during the past years were and are having a law demanding for bad practices.
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Somehow they used the signature from that check he wrote them and forged the papers to deposit all the money into that fake bank account, what they originally were trying to do. And they distributed all of that money to the employees with his signature. And you know how Enron fell in real life and it's funny that guy got a job with Enron not knowing what's going to happen in the future. It's a joke.