Burn, baby, burn - Enron! on tape!

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Arnold and Bush's good buddy Ken Lay.

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Four years after California's disastrous experiment with energy deregulation, Enron energy traders can be heard ? on audiotapes obtained by CBS News ? gloating and praising each other as they helped bring on, and cash-in on, the Western power crisis.

"He just f---s California," says one Enron employee. "He steals money from California to the tune of about a million."

"Will you rephrase that?" asks a second employee.

"OK, he, um, he arbitrages the California market to the tune of a million bucks or two a day," replies the first.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/01/eveningnews/main620626.shtml

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Officials with the Snohomish Public Utility District near Seattle received the tapes from the Justice Department.

"This is the evidence we've all been waiting for. This proves they manipulated the market," said Eric Christensen, a spokesman for the utility.

That utility, like many others, is trying to get its money back from Enron.

"They're f------g taking all the money back from you guys?" complains an Enron employee on the tapes. "All the money you guys stole from those poor grandmothers in California?"

"Yeah, grandma Millie, man"
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And here are email exchanged betweeen Arnold and Lay.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0310/S00064.htm


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Internal Enron e-mails confirm that Arnold Schwarzenegger was among a small group of executives who met with Lay at the posh Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel in May of 2001, in the midst of California's energy crisis. The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, which obtained the e-mails, is calling on Schwarzenegger to acknowledge the meetings and disclose the information that was presented and discussed. The meeting with Enron occurred ten days after rolling blackouts darkened California for two consecutive days; Schwarzenegger has previously said that he does not remember such a meeting.

"You don't meet with America's most well-known corporate crook in the middle of California's biggest financial disaster and not remember," said FTCR's senior consumer advocate Douglas Heller. "Mr. Schwarzenegger should come clean about what happened at that meeting and if he shares Ken Lay's views on energy regulation."
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Yeah... that's just disgusting. Heard on CNN today a phone conversation where one executive was asking someone else how easy it would be to shut off entire power plants to simulate blackouts and drive up demand. Sounded something like:

"How easy would it be to turn these things off?"
"Let's just say it's not something i'd like to do every week."
"Whatever, let's just do it."