Enron and Thomas White, cont'd
Paul Krugman's column for Tuesday takes former Enron honcho and current army secretary Thomas White to task, referring to Jason Leopold's groundbreaking reporting in Salon about White's dubious-at-best role in padding Enron's profits at a critical time in the company's downward spiral.
Choice quote:
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Mr. Cheney supposedly chose Thomas White for his business expertise. But when it became apparent that the Enron division he ran was a money-losing fraud, the story changed. We were told that Mr. White was an amiable guy who had no idea what was actually going on, that his colleagues referred to him behind his back as "Mr. Magoo." Just the man to run the Army in a two-front Middle Eastern war, right? |
Or, as I put it in July, "Army secretary Thomas White is a former Enron official who either (A) knew what was happening at that company and therefore shares responsibility in its ignominy or (B) was completely in the dark about Enron's escapades. A he's a crook, B he's a boob..." [Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment]
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