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Another name on Lay's White House list was that of Nora Brownell, a Pennsylvania utility regulator. Enron discovered her in 1997 when it was trying to break into the lucrative Pennsylvania electricity market. (That year Bush adviser Karl Rove recommended that Enron hire political strategist Ralph Reed to build grass-roots support in the state.) Lay also jumped into the Pennsylvania fray, urging Bush to call his friend Governor Tom Ridge on behalf of Enron. "I called George W. to kind of tell him what was going on," Lay explained to the New York Times. "And I said that...
Merrill Lynch tech analyst Steven Milunovich recently suggested that cash-rich firms like Microsoft should begin paying dividends to shareholders. Then consumer advocate Ralph Nader wrote an open letter badgering Microsoft chairman Gates to do just that...
Fellow Bill Hillsman, the CEO of North Woods Ad Agency, gained national attention for his advertising campaigns for Gov. Jesse Ventura (I-Minn.) and a parody of Mastercard’s “priceless” ads for Ralph Nader’s 2000 presidential...
...force in Los Angeles, each of the nine investigators handles nearly 600 active cases, with a simple case taking about 70 hours to investigate and more complex ones taking three times as long. Each of the nine specialists solves 30 to 40 cases a year, according to team member Ralph Richards. "We're making some headway, but it's a drop in the bucket," he says. "The chances of getting caught are much less than for the guy who steals your...
...release listed the wrong 800-number, sending callers not to the commission but to a love connection service. Then, once calls began to pour in, the commission did not forward to Justice the reports it collected. In a scathing letter to the commission, assistant attorney general for civil rights Ralph Boyd wrote: "Simply put, your refusal prevents the Department of Justice from investigating or otherwise following up these reports in order to ensure that people who need protecting are, in fact, protected." Les Jin, the commission's staff director, responded that the commission doesn't keep a written record...