Ken Lay Slept Here: The Enron Photo Album

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ALBERTO GONZALES, WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL helped Bush keep his DUI a secret. Now he's in charge of keeping Cheney's Enron meetings a secret. Trouble is, he used to work for Enron's law firm.

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The Enron Photo Album
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Indicted

Ken Lay
Chairman/CEO
Sold 1.8 million shares for more than $101.3 million

Ken Lay's Golf Buddy

Ken Lay played golf with Bill Clinton. Clinton helped Ken Lay get a $3 billion power plant project in India for Enron. Four days before the deal went through, Enron gave $100,000 to the Democratic party.

Mr. and Mrs. Phil Gramm

Enron was a large campaign contributor to Texas Senator Phil Gramm. In 1992, his wife, Wendy, was the chair of the federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission. She moved to exempt Enron's energy-swap operation from government oversight, then days later resigned and took a job with Enron on its audit committee. And there's more to this story.

	Enron paid this accounting firm with a troubled past $1 million a week to keep their books.
As soon as the accounting firm found out there would be an investigaton of Enron, they destroyed thousands of documents. Now, it's come out that Enron was shredding documents, too.

George W. Bush lied when he said that he first got to know Ken Lay in 1994, and that Ken Lay was a supporter of his opponent, Ann Richards. Actually, Lay first started contributing to GW's career

back in 1978, and in fact gave GW three times as much money in 1994 as he did Ann Richards.

Click here to read some of the the letters and notes GW and Ken Lay exchanged.

	Dick Cheney met six times with Enron executives while writing up this nation's energy policy which benefited Enron 17 ways, and then refused to tell Congress anything about those meetings. Cheney also met with Ken Lay during the California energy crisis.
The day after the meeting, Cheney said the Bush administration would not support price caps on energy in California, a move that cost Californians and made Enron billions.

The National Enquirer reports that Enron gave millions to the Taliban in a bid to put an oil pipeline through Afghanistan. They claim Enron used CIA agents to carry out dealings overseas.

More Enron executives that walked away with all the cash

Jeff Skilling Former Enron CEO got hit in the face with a pie last summer. He resigned for unknown reasons and cashed out at $76.1 million. Denies knowledge of wrongdoing.	Speaking of pie... Lou Pai bought a historic ranch with some of the $353.7 million he walked away with. Now angry Enron employees and stockholders are trying to take it away from him.	Ken Harrison Former chairman and CEO of Portland General which was acquired by Enron Cashed out at $78 million	Andrew Fastow A questionable deal-maker who turned $25,000 into $4.5 million in two months. He's pleading the Fifth Amendment in Congressional hearings.

So many lawmakers received campaign contributions from Enron that it's been hard to find investigators that don't have financial connections to Enron. Lawmakers are now rushing to dump the cash in an effort to distance themselves from the failed company.

Joe Lieberman was the first to call for an investigation, but now it's come out that his staff met with Enron, in fact his former top aide was an Enron lobbyist. Lawmakers want SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt to recuse himself from the investigation because he worked for the law firm that has represented Arthur Andersen.

Ken Lay called out for help to Commerce Secretary Don Evans and former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neil several times, but they say they never told the president what was going on.