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David Broncoccio and Now - Sellouts or Brain Dead
by Don Beck
Thursday, Aug. 18, 2005 at 2:09 AM
In the first five minutes of his show about Enron, he mentioned the BILLIONS (38 to be close) that Enron stole from California alone. Ten minutes later he referred to Enron as the "Bankrupt Energy Giant".
Jeff Skilling stated (rather conspicuously) three times within five minutes in his Senate Sub-Committee hearing that "Enron was disbursing cash". He was not lying about that. After de-regulation of the energy industry, Enron didn't need to cook the books to make it look like they were making money.... as they had been doing for about a decade. THEY WERE MAKING MONEY........BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. They suddenly needed to stash the cash away from the IRS, and they did that with the help of the 4,300 off-shore accounts in the Cayman Islands and elsewhere.
Yes of course, the first several hundred off-shore accounts were established to hide debt and manufacture a profit when the company was grossing around 2 to 3 billion dollars a year. But when the industry was de-regulated, it was a veritable gusher of profits that somehow no one talks about or investigates. Enron is still referred to as the "bankrupt energy giant". With the profits made in the first year of de-regulation, Enron could have paid it's entire debt portfolio and bought back it's outstanding stock at '98 prices. But, gee, they didn't decide to do that for some reason.
This should be enough for all of us to realize that every institution in this country - the White House, the Justice Dept., the corporate Media, and our Congress is corrupted to the point that they let these scum bags get away with horrendous crimes against the people of this country, just like they did with Michael Milken and his band of thieves in the '80s.
Enron went into bankruptcy because they were stripped of the ability to print and sell it's stock. Not because they had no money, even if it was all illegally begotten. But that fact has seemingly been lost in the clouds of the corporate media coverage, who I now consider Broncoccio a member of. Thanks allot Dave.
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