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...Rosenthal told the magazine Texas Lawyer she hadn't owned Enron stock "for a very long time"--certainly not in 2001 when the case came before her court. But according to a disclosure report filed with the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, she did own some Enron stock in 2000. How much and whether she sold it was removed from the records at her request - with the approval of her judicial superiors. She, like most of the lawyers interviewed by Texas Lawyer, sees no problem with judges owning stock. "We just have to be careful," she told them. Hence...
...Rosenthal's step points yet again to the difficulty of finding anybody in this neck of the woods who hasn't taken money, been employed by, or been burned by, Enron...
Half the House of Representatives. Three-quarters of the Senate. The head of the Justice Department. And of course the president and vice-president. Kenneth Lay and Enron have sent a total of $5.7 million from Houston to Washington since 1989, $4.1 million of it to the business-friendly Republicans - and $623,000, over the course of his political career, to George W. Bush alone. (And that's only at the national level - Texas attorney general John Cornyn has had to join the mass recusals because he'd received $158,000 for his own campaigns...
...tainted by the millions and millions of dollars that were contributed by Enron executives," John McCain - just the man you'd expect to be up in arms about this sort of thing - told CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday. McCain then acknowledged receiving $9,500 from Enron in two campaigns...
...course Enron's tentacles aren't just about the Republicans - Enron wrote checks to Senate Energy Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman and energy-state centrist John Breaux, among others - and they aren't just about political cash. Bush Administration officials with other financial ties to Enron include former stockholder Karl Rove, former advisory board members Larry Lindsey and Robert Zoellick, former lobbyist Marc Racicot and former executive Thomas White Jr. (he's Secretary of the Army). And Robert Rubin, the Democrats' economic ombudsman - but also a big shot at Enron-exposed Citigroup - is on the hook for making his own help...