Global Crossing Investigation To Begin Soon

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-- Cherri's Alter Ego (alternate@mirror.net), February 14, 2002

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And McAuliffe gets to dance around questions. What a treat.

-- Carlos (riffraff@cybertime.net), February 14, 2002.

I am truly looking forward to McAuliffe on the griddle.

-- Peter Errington (petere7@starpower.net), February 14, 2002.

""A lot of people have pointed out that Terry McAuliffe got a sweetheart deal ... and politicians always feel a need to embarrass their foes," said Erick Gustafson, director of federal policy for Citizens for a Sound Economy, a conservative Washington watchdog group chaired by former President George Bush's White House lawyer, C. Boyden Gray."

Sheesh, little Dubby even called in his Poppy to help him out. His mother should have taught him that 2 wrongs never make a right.

-- (Global pales @ next. to Enron), February 14, 2002.


Does that mean you think that investigating Enron is a "wrong"?

-- Gore is spoiled (little@rich.kid), February 16, 2002.

little rich kid,

If you don't know what it means then you are as mindless and immoral as the Dumbya Scumbag, and believe me, that's pretty freaking pathetic.

-- lol (you@dumb.ass!), February 17, 2002.



You're answering yourself again.

-- Carlos (riffraff@cybertime.net), February 17, 2002.

Carlos = Gore is spoiled (little@rich.kid)

-- I see troll IP's (rotfl@pissant.carlos), February 17, 2002.

Oh really how interesting. And who might I be then hmm?

-- (cmon@amaze.me), February 17, 2002.

OH MT GOODNESS!!!! What a SCANDAL

Johnson, Tauzin's spokesman, hinted that if congressional Democrats try to mine political capital out of Enron, they could get their comeuppance with Global Crossing.

"We believe that Enron is a business scandal, not a political scandal," he said.

"But if certain Democrats want to continue to try to politicize the Enron scandal, there's always the possibility we could turn the tables on them in a Global Crossing investigation."

(Sounds like a threat to me) But like Enron, Global Crossing spread its money around Washington liberally, giving money to 39 member of the House and 33 Senators.

Since 1999, the company and its employees have given $2,000 in soft money to Tauzin and $1,000 to Dingell, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.

Slaughter received $1,500 in Global Crossing soft money.

THIS REALLY OVER SHADOWS THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF ENRON AND FRIENDS, ESPECIALLY DURING THE ENERGY TASK FORCE NEGOTIATIONS.

They are really searching for anything t deflect attention away from what was obvious even while they were doing it. Seven days before a Feb. 22, 2001 meeting between Enron executives and Andrew D. Lundquist, the executive director of the Energy task force, the corporation gave $40,000 to the RNC State Elections Committee.

Lundquist met again with unidentified Enron representatives on March 7.
The next day, Hoglund gave $25,000 to the RNC State Elections Committee. Twelve days after that -- March 20 -- Enron donated another $10,000 to the RNC state committee.

On April 9, the task force staff met with unidentified Enron representatives.
Two days later, Kenneth Karas, head of the Enron Wind Corp. subsidiary, chipped in $5,000 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee. (Enron Wind designs wind turbines in California and Germany. A meeting in August included unnamed representatives of Enron's German operation.)

The largest single soft money donation from Enron last year was a $100,000 contribution given to an RNC congressional election committee on June 7. Two weeks later, Vice President Cheney and Lay, the Enron CEO, met when the two served on a panel at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) World Forum in Beaver Creek, Colo.

On Oct. 10, after the task force had completed its work, Lundquist met with Enron executives, again to talk energy policy, according to Cheney's office. A week earlier, on Oct. 2, Enron gave $20,000 to the RNC state committee. Then on Oct. 16 the company donated another $60,000 to the RNC state committee.

Though the company was connected to both Democratic and GOP lawmakers, the bulk of Enron's soft money contributions were given to Republican Party committees. Between January and October, the Democratic National Committee received $2,050 from Enron. Enron made a $100,000 contribution to the DNC on Nov. 26, the week before company filed for bankruptcy, and the same day it contributed $100,000 to the RNC.



-- Cherri (jessam5@home.com), February 19, 2002.


"Enron made a $100,000 contribution to the DNC on Nov. 26, the week before company filed for bankruptcy, and the same day it contributed $100,000 to the RNC. "

This really makes the Democratic party sound good.

-- sal bore (joey@LIE.berman), February 19, 2002.



"Enron made a $100,000 contribution to the DNC on Nov. 26, the week before company filed for bankruptcy, and the same day it contributed $100,000 to the RNC. "

This really makes the Republican party sound good.

-- (dick bush and colon @ bad. combo), February 20, 2002.


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