unavailable), such as in the following conversation at Enron (between traders Rich and Bill):
Bill: “This is gonna be a word of mouth kinda thing, tonight, when you finish your normal queue, when you get ready for tomorrow, I want you guys to get a little creative and come up with a reason to go down [referring to shutting down the turbines].
Rich: “Ok”
Bill: “Is there anything you want to do over there?”
Rich: “Um yeah, there is some stuff we could be doing tonight”
Bill: “Thats good”
Rich: “Um, we need to come down and inspect this switch on the steam turbine, um this one switch on the induction steam valve has been failing us, we need to be down to pull the switch and adjust it”
Bill: “No shit”
Rich: “yeah, and our electrician has to be on shift today so that works out real good”
Regularly, phone calls were made directly to the power plants asking the supervisors to shut down during peak use hours, as in the following conversation:
Trader: f you took down the steamer [from a generating unit], how long would it take to get it back up?
Supervisor: h, it not something you want to just be turning on and off every hour. Let put it that way, another says.
Trader: ell, why don you just go ahead and shut her down.
Soon afterward, the following conversation took place by another two Enron traders. It appears to acknowledge that Enron executives were involved in the trading, were aware of the illegality of it,
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