Month May 2006

Enron Logo contest revisited

In Jan 2002, Viridian Design, an online movement about global warming, had a contest to create a new, more fitting logo for the then catering and collapsing Enron. The above was the winning entry. When companies merge, or change names,…

Lay and Skilling

“It’s safe to say each of them is facing north of 20 years real jail time,” said Kirby Behre, a former federal prosecutor and co-author of Federal Sentencing for Business Crimes. Any money they’ve managed to hold onto will vaporize…

ABC News stands by Hastert story

Despite a flat denial from the Department of Justice, federal law enforcement sources tonight said ABC News accurately reported that Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert is “in the mix” in the FBI investigation of corruption in Congress. ABC’s law…

House leaders whine about FBI search

Why? Members of Congress said they were not defending any possible wrongdoing by Jefferson. But they said the constitutional principle of separation of powers had been violated. It was the first time law enforcement authorities, acting on behalf of the…