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history HOUSTON (Reuters) - US prosecutors are expected to ask a federal grand jury to indict former Enron Corp. chairman Ken Lay within two weeks on charges related to the company's 2001 collapse, a newspaper reported Saturday. The Houston Chronicle, citing unnamed sources, said Lay likely would face fraud charges similar to those filed earlier against former Enron chief executive office Jeffrey Skilling and former Enron chief accounting officer Richard Causey.
View Replies To: wagglebee What I want to know is -- Were they able to penetrate Ken Lay's Family Limited Partnership? It has been said that the FLP is untouchable, and all the assets are buried there.
Lay, 62, led the now-bankrupt energy trading giant for many years and was a major financial contributor and political ally of President Bush and his father, former President George HW Bush. Lay contributed far more to Bill Clinton, his golf buddy.
New President Bill Clinton takes his first vacation, a golf weekend to Vail, Colorado. The Houston Chronicle August 16, 1993, Monday, 2 STAR Edition SECTION: A; He kept mumbling stuff about health care being the next big ticket item on his domestic agenda. But by evening, he'd had such a good time on the local links with Ford, golf legend Jack Nicklaus and Houston's own Ken Lay, chairman of the Enron Corp. and one of George Bush's best pals, that he decided to stay over until today. Clinton, his face sunburned but beaming, told reporters that he and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and 13-year-old daughter Chelsea were having too good a time to leave Sunday as planned. Enron and the administration work together to win Enron the contract for a power plant in India. Clinton uses resources from the CIA to assess risk and analyze the strategy of Enron's British competitor. The administration is instrumental in procuring $400 million in financing from the Export-Import Bank of the United States and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. The New York Times February 19, 1995, Sunday, Late Edition - Final SECTION: Section 3; Makes a Sale BYLINE: By DAVID E SANGER DATELINE: WASHINGTON (excerpt) For 18 months, the Indian power-plant deal has floated near the top of the list of 100 or so big infrastructure projects around the world that the United States Government desperately wants American firms to win. It is the first of eight big power generation projects in India, and if the American consortium could close this one, it would create a precedent likely to give other American companies an advantage in billions of dollars of follow-on deals. In years past, American officials would have offered some modest help, but only as a sideshow to bigger foreign policy concerns, from containing Communist influence in South Asia to keeping India and Pakistan from accelerating their nuclear arms race. But that was another era in American foreign policy, before the Commerce Department built what Jeffrey E Garten, the undersecretary of commerce for international trade, calls "our economic war room." From that Washington war room, the negotiators for the Enron Corporation, the lead bidder in the American consortium, have been shadowed and assisted by a startling array of Government agencies. In a carefully-planned assault, the State and Energy Departments pressed the firms' case. The American ambassador to India, Frank G Wisner, constantly cajoled Indian officials. The Secretary of Energy, Hazel O'Leary, brought in delegations of other executives -- including some last week -- to make the point that more American investment is in the wings if the conditions are right. To sweeten the pot, the Export-Import Bank of the United States and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation put together $400 million in financing. And working just behind the scenes, as it often does these days, was the Central Intelligence Agency, assessing the risks of the project and scoping out the the competitive strategies of Britain and other countries that want a big chunk of the Indian market. paid off last month when the Indian government awarded the power plant project to the American consortium. Bill Clinton recruits Ken Lay to act as a point man for Clinton in drumming up support for Fast Track legislation. Journal of Commerce October 10, 1995, Tuesday SECTION: FOREIGN TRADE, Pg. Both men are well known to one player in that dispute - Ways and Means Chairman Bill Archer, R-Texas, whose district includes Enron's headquarters in Houston. The two also have connections to the Clinton administration. Mr Frenzel served as a special adviser to Mr Clinton to lobby his former colleagues on the North American Free Trade Agreement. Mr Lay has been a friend of Clinton adviser Thomas "Mac" McLarty since Mr McLarty's time as head of Arkansas' largest natural-gas utility. August 1997 Clinton hosts Ken Lay at White House to discuss upcoming meeting in Kyoto, Japan concerning greenhouse gas. The Houston Chronicle August 6, 1997, Wednesday, 3 STAR Edition SECTION: BUSINESS; And Britain's new Labor government has blasted the United States for failing to go far enough to reduce greenhouse gases. Browne has broken ranks with other oil executives to concede a buildup of carbon dioxide gases may be changing the Earth's climate. BP also happens to be the United States' largest crude oil producer with 13,000 employees in this country, company officials pointed out. Chief Executive Ken Lay, who also was at the Monday meeting, said Clinton sounded Browne out on his opinions of the policies being pushed by the Europeans. Nobody seemed to worry the United States was tipping its hand. October 2000 Near end of Clinton's Presidency, but prior to the November election, a Clinton Assistant Treasury Secretary takes a position at Enron as vice president for federal government affairs. The Washington Post October 12, 2000, Thursday, Final Edition SECTION: A SECTION; SPECIAL INTERESTS HEADLINE: Enron Hire Faces Some Partisan Fire BYLINE: Judy Sarasohn (excerpt) Enron announced yesterday that Linda Robertson, assistant Treasury secretary for legislative affairs and public liaison, will join the Houston energy company in early November as vice president for federal government affairs. She will replace Joe Hillings, who earlier announced his retirement. Ken Lay, chairman and chief executive of Enron, has given more than $ 290,000 of his own money to the Republican Party this year to help elect Bush, his longtime friend, president. But that didn't insulate Enron from criticism in some Republican quarters on Capitol Hill. It just makes little sense," a GOP leadership aide said yesterday.
com/wdc/archives/2001-09/diplomats/) reported that Mack McLarty joined Bill Richardson and Henry Kissinger in forming the Kissinger McLarty lobbying and diplomacy firm in 1999.
The problem with that action, however, is that it was almost certainly in violation of Executive Order number 12834. President Clinton's very first Executive Order back in 1993 forbade officials in his administration from lobbying government contacts after they left their government jobs. This particular Executive Order (number 12834) even required all senior level appointees to sign legally binding pledges that they would not lobby governmental contacts for five years after they left the Clinton Administration.
htm), establishing that any of his recent lobbying activities, if any, would fall well within the prohibited five year post-Clinton-Administration departure time limit imposed upon all senior administration officials by Executive Order number 12834.
com/focus/f-news/1131775/posts Kerry comes to town If Arkansas is a battleground state in the 2004 presidential race, John Kerry officially enters the combat zone next Wednesday, when he arrives in Little Rock for a fund-raising event and at least one public appearance. The Massachusetts senator will be feted at Kaki Hockersmith's Edgehill home on the evening of May 12. All of the Democratic members of the Arkansas congressional delegation will be on the host committee, along with Gen. Wesley Clark, Thomas F "Mack" McLarty, Woody Bassett, Beth and Mike Coulson, and other assorted dignitaries and deep-poc...
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