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Wanted in Houston: someone - anyone - without ties to Enron...
...Southern District Court Judge Lee Rosenthal, who was overseeing some 45 cases involving 401(k) and securities claims against Enron in Houston, has become the latest public official to recuse herself from the Case of the Crooked E. (It's a play on Enron's tilted E logo, folks - not a rush to prejudge.) Her withdrawal, not revealed until Monday, came on Friday - just days after the entire U.S. attorney's office in Houston as well as the Attorney General of the United States (not to mention the one in Texas) had to step out of the investigation...
...Judge Rosenthal was and is, by all accounts, a honorable type but the fact that she was appointed by George Bush Sr., had worked for Bush's old chief of staff James Baker at Baker Botts in Houston, and had owned Enron stock did raise a red flag among angry shareholders. Last week, after all, Rosenthal turned down a request to freeze the $1.1 billion gained by 29 Enron directors and officers on stock options even as shareholders and employees were losing their shirt. Baker, her old boss, had worked for Enron after he left the Bush White House...
...Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) at Harvard has repeatedly used Winokur’s involvement with Enron as part of its public relations campaign against the Corporation...
...light of the disaster at Enron Corp. and Mr. Winokur’s absolutely central role in it as finance chair, we must ensure that he is not implementing or overseeing irresponsible or fraudulent policies at Harvard, as the Enron board is alleged to have done,” Simmons said...