and were involved in covering it up.
Trader 3: “This guy from the Wall Street Journal calls me up a little bit ago…”
Trader 4: “I wouldn’t do it, because first of all you’d have to tell ’em a lot of lies because if you told the truth…”
Trader 3: “I’d get in trouble.”
Trader 4: “You’d get in trouble.”
Another conversation went as such:
Trader 1: heye fucking taking all the money back from you guys? All the money you guys stole from those poor grandmothers in California?
Trader 2: “Yeah, Grandma Millie man. But she the one who couldn figure out how to fucking vote on the butterfly ballot.”
[Laughing from both sides]
Trader 1: “Yeah, now she wants her fucking money back for all the power you’ve charged right up, jammed right up her ass for fucking 0 a megawatt hour.”
[Harder Laughing]
In an Aug. 4, 2000, conversation, Enron trading executives John Lavorato and Tim Belden discussed a dispute involving traders who worked for Lavorato. The two Enron executives appeared to acknowledge the illegality of the trading.
Lavorato: just, ah fuck, I just trying to be an honest camper, so I only go to jail once.
Belden: ell, there you go. At least in only one country. (Laughs.)
Lavorato: eah, [unknown] this isn a joke
Handling of the crisis
Governor Gray Davis
Perhaps the heaviest point of controversy is
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