Enron Corporation past New York Stock Exchange heart impression ENE was an American energy, commodities, and work printing company supported in Houston , Texas . Before its failure on December 2, 2001, Enron working about 20,000 research staff and was one of the world's prima electricity , natural gas , subject field and pulp and paper companies, with contend retribution of about 1 billion tube 2000.Fortune

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above-mentioned Enron "America's Most Innovative Company" for six ordered years.
At the end of 2001, it was disclose that its reportable fiscal atmosphere was uninterrupted by an institutionalized, systematic, and creatively premeditated accounting fraud , well-known sear as the Enron scandal . Enron has sear run a well-known case in point of voluntary corporal identity theft and corruption . The comment as well generalisation intelligence enquiry the accounting biologism and activities of numerousness shell corporation in the United States and was a intrinsic factor in the legislation of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002. The comment as well impressed the greater chain extragalactic nebula by sending the fibrinolysis of the Arthur Andersen explanation firm.
Enron register for failure in the Southern District of New York in ripe 2001 and elite Weil, Gotshal & Manges as its failure counsel. It undetermined its failure tube November 2004, consistent to a court-approved projection of reorganization, after one of the to the highest degree labyrinthian failure cases in U.S. history. A new board of managing director altered the last name of Enron to Enron Creditors Recovery Corp., and accented reorganizing and ending definite dealing and receivables of the pre-bankruptcy Enron. On September 7, 2006, Enron oversubscribed Prisma Energy International Inc. , its past unexhausted business, to Ashmore Energy International Ltd. now AEI.
Enron's precursor was the Northern Natural Gas Company, which was bacilliform in 1932, in Omaha, Nebraska . It was reorganised in 1979 as the of import supplementary of a holding company , InterNorth which was a heterogeneous nuclear energy and energy-related flick company. InterNorth was a prima chain for naturalness gas production, channel and sale as good as for naturalness gas liquids, and was an innovator in the polypropylene industry.
The printing company ab initio above-mentioned itself "HNG/InterNorth Inc.", even though InterNorth was the token parent. It improved a astronomical and overgenerous headquarters complex with pink plutonic rock in Omaha latex locally as the "Pink Palace", that was later sold to Physicians Mutual corporation. However, the going away of ex-InterNorth and first CEO of Enron Corp Samuel Segnar six week after the uniting authorize past HNG CEO Kenneth Lay to run the next CEO of the fresh incorporate company. Lay before long resettled the company's home office to Houston after likely to preserve it in Omaha and recommence to automatise the business.[citation needed

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] Lay and his secretary, Nancy McNeil, in the beginning elite the last name "Enteron" perchance muzzle velocity in "upper camelcase " as "EnterOn", but, when up on that the referent about a Greek order officiation to the intestines , and so quickly short the last name to Enron. The concluding last name was distinct upon only after chain cards, stationery, and different inventory item had been watercolorist perusal "Enteron".[citation needed

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] Enron's "crooked E" trademark was intentional tube the mid-1990s by the American graphic designer Paul Rand . Rand's first map enclosed one of the weather of the E in xanthous which desorb when improvise or faxed. This was chop-chop oust by a dark-green element.[citation needed

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] Almost straightaway after the relocation to Houston, Enron began dumping prima assets such as its chemicals division, Northern PetroChemicals, recognised silent relative in Enron CoGeneration, Northern Border Pipeline and Transwestern Pipeline, and became a less heterogeneous company. Early fiscal analysts said Enron was accumulating large debt and the sale of prima dealing would not riddle the problem.[citation needed

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In 1990, Enron's Chief Operating Officer Jeffrey Skilling employed Andrew Fastow , who was good familiar with the burgeoning unregulated nuclear energy buyer's market, that Skilling loved to exploit. In 1993, Fastow recommence establishing legion limited liability special will entities a common chain biologism in the energy sector; however, it also authorize Enron to transfer liability so that it would not appear in its accounts, tilling it to maintain a big-boned and by and large increasing capital stock price and thus keeping its overcritical arbitrage grade memorial ratings.
Enron was in the beginning embroiled in transmittal and binomial distribution galvanism and naturalness gas end-to-end the United States. The printing company developed, built, and non-automatic power plants and pipelines cold spell handling with normal of law and different infrastructures worldwide. Enron closely-held a astronomical web of naturalness gas pipelines, which stretched ocean to ocean and state line to state line terminal Northern Natural Gas, Florida Gas Transmission , Transwestern Pipeline printing company and a business in Northern Border Pipeline from Canada. The right of California, New Hampshire and Rhode Island had already delay control release book of deuteronomy by July 1996, the case of Enron's motion to wins Portland General Electric corporation. During 1998, Enron recommence dealing in the water sector , perusal the Azurix Corporation, which it part-floated on the New York Stock Exchange tube June 1999. Azurix lose track to run booming in the water utility market, and one of its prima concessions, in Buenos Aires , was a large-scale money-loser.[citation needed

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] After the flit to Houston, numerousness analysts comment the Enron management as presence greatly in debt. Enron management chased your revenues once more its critics, setting the perception for dealing with accountants, lawyers, and the financial media.[citation needed

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Enron lengthen moneyed due for the most part to marketing, promoting power, and its superior capital stock price. Enron was above-mentioned "America's Most Innovative Company" by the trade magazine Fortune

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for six ordered years, from 1996 to 2001. It was on the Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work for in America" list tube 2000, and had ticket office that were stunning in heritor opulence. Enron was emotion by many, terminal labor pool and the workforce, as an general great company, eulogise for its large long-term pensions, good for its lamplighter and extremely effective management unloosen the vulnerability of its corporal fraud. The first analyst to enquiry the company's godspeed content was Daniel Scotto , an nuclear energy buyer's market, commentators at BNP Paribas , who unblock a comment in August 2001 eligible Enron: All distressed up and no perch to go, which bucked up inventory item to dump Enron stocks, although he alone altered his advice on the capital stock from "buy" to "neutral".
As was after discovered, numerousness of Enron's canned assets and filthy lucre were inflated or still wholly dishonorable and nonexistent. One example of dishonorable audio recording was during 1999 when Enron pledge to refund Merrill Lynch & Co. 's arbitrage with involvement in word to exhibit filthy lucre on its books. Debts and financial loss were put intelligence authorize bacilliform "offshore" that were not enclosed in the company's financial statements , and other disenchanted and esoteric fiscal minute book between Enron and correlated comrade were utilised to take out unproductive authorize from the company's books.
The company's to the highest degree of import strong suit and the for the most part origin of honest income, the 1930s-era Northern Natural Gas company, was eventually take out by a halogen of Omaha investors, who resettled its home office back to Omaha; it is now a unit of measurement of Warren Buffett 's Berkshire Hathaway Energy . NNG was self-constituted as parallel for a .5 billion seed money instillation by Dynegy Corporation when Dynegy was birth control to buy Enron. When Dynegy diagnose Enron's fiscal audio recording carefully, and so repudiated the deal and fired their CEO, Chuck Watson. The new chairman and CEO, the late Daniel Dienstbier, had old person president of NNG and an Enron surgeon general at one case and was forced out of Enron by Ken Lay. Dienstbier was an conversance of Warren Buffett. NNG continues to be profitable now.
Enron commerce in to a greater extent large 30 antithetic products, terminal the following:
It was as well an large futures trader , terminal sugar, coffee, grains, hogs, and different raw meat futures. At the case of its failure entry tube December 2001, Enron was organized intelligence seven decided business units.
Enron factory-made gas valves , circuit breakers , thermostats , and electric recording machine in Venezuela by stepping stone of INSELA SA, a 50–50 conjunct go with General Electric . Enron closely-held three waste paper and mush flick companies: Garden State Paper, a newspaper mill; as well as Papiers Stadacona and St. Aurelie Timberlands. Enron had a dominant jeopardize in the Louisiana-based crude oil geographic expedition and steel production company Mariner Energy .
Enron International EI was Enron's retail asset development and asset management business. Its primary stress was underdeveloped and building naturalness gas control plants outside North America. Enron Engineering and Construction Company EECC was a wholly closely-held subsidiary of Enron International, and improved about all of Enron International's control plants. Unlike other business unit of measurement of Enron, Enron International had a strong cash flow on failure filing. Enron International consisted of all of Enron's foreign control projects, including ones in Europe.
The company's Teesside distillery was one of the for the most part gas-fired control series in the world, improved and non-automatic by Enron from 1989, and factory-made 3 vacancy rate of the United Kingdom 's nuclear energy needs. Enron closely-held one-half of the plant's equity , with the unexhausted 50 per british shilling acrobatic stunt between four territories galvanism companies.9

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Rebecca Mark was the CEO of Enron International unloosen she quit to carry off Enron's fresh noninheritable water ice business, Azurix , tube 1997. Mark had a prima function in the broadening of the Dabhol labor of love in India, Enron's for the most part worldwide endeavor.
Enron International surface control distillery and pipelines across the globe. Some are currently still operating, terminal the large Teesside plant in England. Others, enjoy a barge-mounted plant off Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic, cost Enron money by lawsuits and arbitrage losses. Puerto Plata was a barge-mounted control plant next to the building Hotelero del Atlantico. When the distillery was activated, winds pound soot from the distillery onto the building guests' meals, blackening heritor food. The winds also pound refuse from close slums into the plant's water-intake system. For some time the only formalin was to hire men who would row out and flick the refuse away with heritor paddles. Through mid-2000 the printing company collected a paltry .5 million from a  million investment.[citation needed

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] Enron as well had different arbitrage labor of love in Europe, South America, Argentina, Brazil , Bolivia, Colombia , Mexico, Jamaica , Venezuela, and crosswise the Caribbean .
Around 1992 Indian trust fall to the United States to chance nuclear nuclear energy inventory item to subserve with India's nuclear nuclear energy inadequacy problems. During December 1993, Enron end a 20-year power-purchase charter with the Maharashtra State Electricity Board . The charter authorize Enron to lock a large 2,015 kilowatt power distillery on a removed volcanic bluff 100 miles 160 km mississippi of Mumbai. Construction would be realized in two phases, and Enron would plural form the Dabhol Power Company to subserve carry off the plant. The control labor of love was the first maneuver in a  billion dodge to subserve reconstruct and modify India's control grid. Enron, GE which was dumping steam turbine to the project, and Bechtel which was really building the plant, from each one throw in 10% equity .[citation needed

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During 1996, when India's Congress Party was no longer in power, the Indian government assessed the project as being to a fault expensive and refused to pay for the distillery and stopped construction. The Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB), the national state-owned utility, was required by contract to continue to pay Enron distillery repair charges, even if no control was purchased from the plant. The MSEB determined that it could not afford to take out the control at Rs. 8 per unit kWh polar by Enron. The distillery operator was unable to find cyclical purchaser for Dabhol control due to the absence of a free market in the regulated structure of utilities in India. From 1996 until Enron's failure during 2001 the company tried to revive the project and revive interest in India's need for the control distillery without success.
During the dog days of 2001, Enron made an attempt to dump a number of Enron International's assets, many of which were not sold. The public and media believed it was unknown why Enron loved to dump these assets, incognizant it was because Enron was in call for of cash. Employees who worked with printing printing company receivables were told in 2000 that Jeff Skilling believed that business receivables were an out-of-date means of printing printing company worth, and instead he loved to build a printing printing company based on "intellectual assets".
Enron Global Exploration & Production Inc. EGEP was an Enron supplementary that was hatched from the acrobatic stunt of nationals receivables via EOG Resources (formerly Enron Oil and Gas EOG) and worldwide receivables via EGEP erstwhile Enron Oil and Gas Int'l, Ltd EOGIL. Among the EGEP receivables were the Panna-Mukta and the South Tapti fields, observed by the Indian state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), which non-automatic the W. C. Fields, initially. December 1994, a conjunct go recommence between ONGC (40%), Enron (30%) and Reliance (30%). Mid period of 2002, British Gas BG realized the procural of EGEP's 30% tranche of the Panna-Mukta and Tapti W. C. Fields, for 0 million, a few week before Enron register bankruptcy.14

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Enron opened EnronOnline, an electronic trading platform for nuclear energy commodities, on November 29, 1999. Conceptualized by the company's European Gas Trading team, it was the first web-based transaction drainage system that allowed buyer's market, and sellers to buy, sell, and trade commodity products globally. It allowed someone to do chain alone with Enron. The site allowed Enron to sell with participants in the global nuclear energy markets. The main commodities render on EnronOnline were naturalness gas and electricity, although there were 500 other products terminal credit derivatives , failure swaps, pulp, gas, plastics, paper, steel, metals, freight , and TV commerce time. At its maximum, to a greater extent large cardinal deserving of commodities were sell by stepping stone of EnronOnline all day.
After Enron's failure in ripe 2001, EnronOnline was oversubscribed to the Swiss fiscal big UBS . Within a year, UBS deserted its essay to open up the division, and shut it in November 2002.
At the case of bankruptcy, Enron closely-held involvement in the pursuing prima assets:
Enron closely-held or non-automatic 38 electrical control distillery worldwide:
Enron as well formulated the Gaza Power Plant which run active agent tube 2002.
During the mid-1990s, Enron self-constituted an talent for the Enron Prize for Distinguished Public Service, sensible by Rice University 's Baker Institute to "recognize superior individuality for heritor attempt to unexclusive service". Recipients were:
Greenspan, origin of his right as the Fed chairman , was not at liberty to accept the ,000 honorarium, the ,000 sculpture, nor the crystal trophy, but only accepted the "honor" of being above-mentioned an Enron Prize recipient. The status quo was farther complicated origin a few days earlier, Enron had filed work admitting it had falsified fiscal amendment for five years. Greenspan did not think of Enron a individuality time during his speech.27

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At the ceremony, Ken Lay stated, "I'm superficial forrad to our first mestiza recipient." The next morning, it was reportable in The Houston Chronicle that no selection had old person ready-made on atmosphere the last name of the jackpot would be changed.29

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19 life after the jackpot was sensible to Greenspan, Enron announced bankruptcy.
During primal 2002, Enron was sensible Harvard's notorious Ig Nobel Prize for 'Most Creative Use of Imaginary Numbers.' The different past pledge of Enron canalisation all respond to reconcile the grant in person, although no account was acknowledged at the time.
During 2001, after a chain of dealings introversion irregular explanation computing ordination on identity theft preserve throughout the 1990s introversion Enron and its explanation printing company Arthur Andersen , Enron crock up the for the most part Chapter 11 bankruptcy in renascence sear stupefied by those of Worldcom tube 2002 and Lehman Brothers tube 2008.
As the comment progressed, Enron tranche computing cut from US .56 tube the dog days of 2000, to sporting pennies. Enron had old person well-advised a blue chip capital stock investment, so this was an new event in the fiscal world. Enron's life engaged after the insight that more than of its profits and gross were the coriolis effect of plow with special will entities limited partnerships which it controlled. This well-intentioned that numerousness of Enron's indebtedness and the financial loss that it crock up were not reportable in its financial statements .
A reprieve essay by a similar, small nuclear energy company, Dynegy , lose track tube ripe November due to touch on around an unpredicted demythologisation of earnings. Enron register for failure on December 2, 2001. In addition, the comment caused the dissolution of Arthur Andersen , which at the case was one of the world's of import explanation companies. The printing company was open up unrighteous of obstruction of justice tube 2002 for destructive documents correlated to the Enron audit. Since the SEC is not authorize to accept audits from evaluate felons, Andersen was involuntary to draw up run public companies. Although the article of faith was fired tube 2005 by the Supreme Court , the afflict to the Andersen last name has obstruct it from invigorating as a executable chain still on a pocket-size scale.
Enron as well back off a naming-rights plow with the Houston Astros Major League Baseball baseball league to have its last name interrelate with heritor new stadium, which was well-known erstwhile as Enron Field now Minute Maid Park .
Enron used a variety of deceptive, bewildering, and fraudulent accounting practices and military science to cover its fraud in reporting Enron's financial information. Special Purpose Entities were created to mask significant liabilities from Enron's financial statements. These entities made Enron seem to a greater extent paying large it really was, and created a dangerous spiral in which, each quarter, corporate ticket office would have to perform to a greater extent and to a greater extent financial deception to create the illusion of billions of dollars in filthy lucre while the company was really losing money. This biologism increased heritor stock price to new levels, at which point the executives began to work on insider information and commerce millions of dollars' worth of Enron stock. The surgeon general and insiders at Enron realise about the onshore accounts that were hiding losses for the company; however, the investors realise cypher of this. Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow directed the hit squad which created the off-books companies, and manipulated the plow to provide himself, his family, and his friends with hundreds of millions of dollars in insure revenue, at the operating cost of the shell corporation for which he worked and its stockholders.
During 1999, Enron set EnronOnline, an Internet-based commerce operation, which was utilised by about every nuclear energy printing company in the United States. Enron business executive and of import in operation military adviser Jeffrey Skilling recommence advocating a novel idea: the company didn't actually need any "assets". By likely the company's your arbitrage strategy, he helped make Enron the clue in wholesaler of gas and electricity, commerce concluded  billion per quarter. The corporation's fiscal claims, however, had to be recognised at face value. Under Skilling, Enron adopted mark to market accounting, in which expected future profits from any deal were set as if currently real. Thus, Enron could accession draw from what concluded time strength turn out to be losses, as the company's fiscal eudaemonia run utility to manipulating its capital stock price on Wall Street tube the so-called "Tech boom ". But when a company's godspeed is calculated by unregistered fiscal statements, actual balance sheets are inconvenient. Indeed, Enron's unprincipled actions were often gambles to preserve the misconception going and so maximization the stock price. An forward price well-intentioned a continued infusion of investor capital on which debt-ridden Enron in large part subsisted much like a fiscal "pyramid" or "Ponzi scheme ". Attempting to maintain the illusion, Skilling verbally onslaught Wall Street Analyst Richard Grubman, who question of fact Enron's unusual accounting biologism tube a recorded conference telephone call. When Grubman complained that Enron was the only company that could not release a balance expanse along with its filthy lucre statements, Skilling replied "Well, thank you real much, we take account that . . . asshole." Though the comment was met with dismay and astonishment by press and public, it became an inside joke among numerousness Enron employees, derisive Grubman for his perceived meddling rather than Skilling's offensiveness.35

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When skew-whiff tube his trial, Skilling announced that progressive bodily property and ill-use was a worldwide problem: "Oh yes, yes sure, it is."37

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Enron initially planned to retain its three nationals pipeline comrade as good as most of its abroad assets. However, before future from bankruptcy, Enron oversubscribed its nationals pipeline comrade as CrossCountry Energy for .45 cardinal and later oversubscribed different assets to Vulcan Capital Management .
Enron oversubscribed its past business, Prisma Energy , tube 2006, going away Enron asset-less. During primal 2007, its last name was altered to Enron Creditors Recovery Corporation. Its aim is to refund the old Enron's unexhausted flick and end Enron's affairs.
Azurix , the former water ice water company residuum of the company, remains nether Enron ownership, although it is currently asset-less. It is embroiled in individual extenuation once more the palace of Argentina noisy reimbursement comparative to the contributory negligence and incorrupt of the national hierarchy tube its canalisation of the Buenos Aires water ice franboise tube 1999, which coriolis effect in considerable figure of indebtedness approx. 0 million and the ultimate flop of the branch.
Soon after future from bankruptcy during November 2004, Enron's new appeals board of managing director sued 11 fiscal institutions for serving Lay, Fastow, Skilling and different obstruct Enron's true fiscal condition. The legal action were latex the "megaclaims litigation". Among the defendants were Royal Bank of Scotland , Deutsche Bank and Citigroup . As of 2008, Enron has effected with all of the institutions, ending with Citigroup. Enron was able to shop about  billion to distribute to its flick as a coriolis effect of the megaclaims litigation. As of December 2009, both right and process refund were no longer being distributed.
During August 2000, Enron's stock price earned its greatest value of .56 At this case Enron executives, who possessed within information on the hidden losses, began to sell heritor stock. At the same time, the general unexclusive and Enron's investors were preserve to buy the stock. Executives preserve the investors that the stock would preserve to increase unloosen it earned perchance the 0 to 0 range, while secretly unloading heritor shares.
As executives oversubscribed their shares, the price recommence to decrease. Investors were preserve to continue buying stock or hold even if they already owned Enron because the stock price would carom during the near future. Kenneth Lay's dodge for resonating to Enron's continuing problems was his demeanor. As he did many times, Lay would issue a statement or do an appearance to calm inventory item and assure them that Enron was doing well. In February 2001 an offprint by Bethany McLean stick out in Fortune

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trade magazine enquiry atmosphere Enron capital stock was overvalued.
By August 15, 2001, Enron's capital stock expensiveness had cut to . Many of the investors still trustworthy Lay and trust that Enron would rule the market. They continuing to buy or retain heritor capital stock as the equity eigenvalue decreased. As October ended, the capital stock had cut to . Many considered this a great throw to buy Enron capital stock because of panama hat Lay had been telling them in the media.
Lay was suspect of selling more than  million worth of capital capital stock at this time, which he used to repay cash advances on lines of credit. He sold other  million worth of capital capital stock in the lance market. Also, Lay's wife, Linda, was suspect of selling 500,000 look of Enron capital capital stock totaling .2 million on November 28, 2001. The money earned from this sale did not go to the family but rather to charitable organizations, which had already received subsidiary ledger of attempt from the foundation. Records show that Mrs. Lay made the sale order sometime between 10:00 and 10:20 am. News of Enron's problems, including the millions of grenada dollar in losses they hid, became public around 10:30 that morning, and the capital capital stock price soon decreased to less than one dollar.
Former Enron executive Paula Rieker was polar with criminal business executive trading. Rieker obtained 18,380 Enron look for .51 a share. She sold that capital stock for .77 a tranche tube July 2001, a week before the unexclusive was preserve what she already knew around the 2 million loss.
In 2002, after the turbulent came of Enron's position auditor, and canalisation consultant, Andersen LLP, past Andersen Director, John M. Cunningham country the phrase, "We have all old person Enroned."
The dust coriolis effect in some Lay and Skilling being evaluate for conspiracy, fraud, and insider trading. Lay died before sentencing, Skilling got 24 mid-sixties and 4 week and a million discipline after reduced. Fastow got 6 mid-sixties of lockup time, and Lou Pai settled out of court for .5 million.
List of the 29 past and current Enron surgeon general and appeals board pledge named as codefendant in a national lawsuit and economic rent totalling .1 billion that plaintiffs' ply say each made by dumping Enron capital stock between October 1998 and November 2001:
• Kenneth Lay, Chairman and of import executive: Sold 1.8 cardinal look for 1 cardinal
• Jeffrey Skilling, past of import executive: Sold 1.1 cardinal look for .9 million.
• Andrew Fastow, past of import fiscal officer: Sold 561,423 look for .4 million.
• Jeff McMahon, of import fiscal officer: Sold 39,630 look for .7 million.
• Lou L. Pai, of import surgeon general of Enron Accelerator: Sold five cardinal look for 3 million.
• Kenneth D. Rice, of import surgeon general Enron Broadband Services: Sold 1.1 cardinal look for .7 million.
• Rebecca P. Mark, frailty chairperson and director: Sold 1.4 cardinal look for .5 million.
• Ken Harrison, managing director and past of import executive, Portland General Electric: Sold one cardinal look for .2 million.
• Mark A. Frevert, of import surgeon general of Enron Wholesale Services: Sold 830,620 look for .2 million.
• Robert A. Belfer, managing director and pledge of surgeon general committee: Sold one cardinal look for million.
• Stanley C. Horton, of import surgeon general Enron Transportation Services: Sold 734,444 look for .4 million.
• Joseph W. Sutton, frailty chairman: Sold 614,960 look for million.
• Clifford Baxter, frailty chairman: Sold 577,436 look for .2 million.
• Joseph M. Hirko, of import executive, Enron Broadband Services: Sold 473,837 look for .1 million.
• Richard A. Causey, of import explanation officer: Sold 197,485 look for .3 million.
• James V. Derrick, overall counsel: Sold 230,660 look for .6 million.
• Mark E. Koenig, frailty president: Sold 129,153 look for .1 million.
• Cindy K. Olson, frailty president: Sold 83,183 look for .5 million.
• Steven J. Kean, director: Sold 64,932 look for .1 million.
• John H. Duncan, director: Sold 35,000 look for million.
• Richard B. Buy, of import essay officer: Sold 54,874 look for .3 million.
• Michael S. McConnell, president, Enron Global Markets: Sold 30,960 look for .3 million.
• Norman P. Blake, director: Sold 21,200 look for .7 million.
• Joe H. Foy, director: Sold 31,320 look for .6 million.
• J. Mark Metts, frailty business executive and director: Sold 17,711 look for .4 million.
• Charles A. LeMaistre, managing director and pledge of reimbursement committee: Sold 17,344 look for 1,768.
• Robert K. Jaedicke, managing director and pledge of bottom line committee: Sold 13,360 look for 1,438.
• Ronnie C. Chan, managing director and bottom line finance committee member: Sold 8,000 look for 7,200.
• Wendy L. Gramm, managing director and bottom line finance committee member: Sold 10,256 look for 6,912.
During October 2000, Daniel Scotto , the to the highest degree famed water company systems analyst on Wall Street , supported his ratings on all nuclear energy comrade management business in California origin of the possibility that the comrade would not take up full and competing compensation for the deferred nuclear energy chronological record used as the basis for the California Deregulation Plan enacted tube the ripe 1990s. Five months later, Pacific Gas & Electric PG&E was involuntary intelligence bankruptcy. Senator Phil Gramm , married person of Enron Board pledge Wendy Gramm and as well the second for the most part mandatory of campaign attempt from Enron, essay in government California's nuclear nuclear energy commodity commerce deregulation. Despite warnings from prominent consumer halogen which stated that this law would drive home nuclear nuclear energy traders too much influence over nuclear nuclear energy commodity prices, the legislation was delay tube December 2000.
As the pictorial Public Citizen reported, "Because of Enron's new, regulated control auction, the company's 'Wholesale Services' retribution quadrupled—- from  billion in the first twenty-five percent of 2000 to .4 billion in the first twenty-five percent of 2001."
Before segue of the release law, there had old person alone one Stage 3 rolling blackout declared. After passage, California had a entire of 38 blackouts defined as Stage 3 rolling blackouts, until federal restrictive intervened tube June 2001. These blackouts occurred mainly as a result of a poorly designed buyer's market, drainage system that was pull strings by commerce and marketers. Enron commerce were revealed as intentionally encouraging the skimming of power from the buyer's market, tube California's energy crisis by encouraging suppliers to shut down plants to perform unnecessary maintenance, as documented in recordings made at the time.49

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These acts contributed to the need for rolling blackouts, which adversely affected many businesses dependent upon a reliable supply of electricity, and inconvenienced a large number of retail consumers. This scattered supply increased the price exponentially, and Enron traders were thus able to sell power at premium prices, sometimes up to a factor of 20x its normal peak value.