Year: 1985:
Enron Born. Kenneth Lay, CEO
Year 1986:
George W. Bush's oil company, Spectrum 7, partners with Enron on a Texas oil &
Gas project
Year: 1988
George H. Bush elected President of the US. Ken Lay backed the elder Bush.
(Lay was appointed a trustee of the Bush Presidential Library to which Lay
has donated $50,000)
Presidential son, George W. Bush, phones Argentine government
officials pressuring them to approve Enron's bid for a $300 million oil and
gas pipeline project.
Year: 1990
Bush's ambassador to Argentina, Terence Todman, pressures Argentine
officials to approve Enron's bid.
Year: 1993
G. H. Bush appoints Wendy Gramm (wife of Texas senator Phil Gramm)
to chair the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Mrs. Gramm
pushed through measure that allowed Enron to trade risky energy derivatives.
Six months later she left FERC and became an Enron board member.
G.H. Bush's former national Security Advisor, Brent Scowcroft,
becomes a director of an Enron subsidiary in Argentina that purchased a
1/3-interest in the oil & gas pipeline project.
Former G.H. Bush administration Secretary of Commerce, Robert
Mosbacher, hired as an Enron consultant.
Year: 1994
G.W. Bush, now governor of Texas, appoints Patrick Wood III to head
the Texas Public Utilities Commission. Wood proved a steadfast supporter
of regulatory forbearance for Enron in Texas.
Year: 1997
Former G.H. Bush Secretary of State, James A. Baker, is retained by Enron
as an advisor on overseas mergers and acquisitions.
Year: 1999
Florida Governor, Jeb Bush, appoints James Garner III to his Everglades
Commission. Garner headed an Enron subsidiary in the state that was
seeking water rights for its operations.
Gov. Jeb Bush appoints Walter Revell to his Florida Energy 2020 Commission
. Revell and Ken Lay had been friends for 25 years. Enron had contributed over
$325,000 to Florida state candidates..
Year: 1999
- Republican activist Ralph Reed throws his support
to G.W.. Bush after Bush top advisor,
Karl Rove, secures Reed a $20,000 a month job with Enron.
Year: 2001
Enronites on the Bush Transition Team
- Kenneth Lay- CEO Enron - Bush Energy Team
- Ed Gillespie - Enron lobbyist
- Cynthia Sanderr - Enron lobbyist - Bush Commerce Team
- Tom Marinis - Vinson & Elkins attorney - Bush Justice Team
- Joe Berardino - Arthur Andersen CEO - Bush Treasury Team
Bush Administration Appointees
- John Aschroft - Attorney General.
Received nearly $61,000 from Enron for his unsuccessful Senate race.
- Lawrence Thompson
Deputy Attorney General - Enron lawyer with King & Spaulding.
- Thomas White - Secretary of the Army.
Headed Enron
Energy Services. Held between $25 and $50 million in Enron stock.
- Robert Zoellick
US Trade Representative - Former Enron Consultant
- Nora Brownell
Bush appointee to FERC - Former pro-Enron Texas PUC member
- Harvey Pitt
Chairman SEC - Former attorney for Enron auditors Arthur Andersen.
- Clay Johnson - White House Personnel
Dir. - Large energy holdings, Ken
Lay delivered to Johnson a list of appointees acceptable to Enron.
- Robert Blackwell - Ambassador to India
first of order of business was to lobby
Indian government
to complete a controversial Enron power project in Dabhol, India.
- Ted Kassinger - Commerce Dept. Counsel - Former Vinson & Elkins attorney.
- Lewis "Scooter" Libby - Cheney's Chief of Staff - Large Enron shareholder.
- Karl Rove - Advisor to the President
Large Enron shareholder. Arranged job at Enron for Ralph Reed.
- Alberto Gonzales
White House Counsel - Lawyer with Enron attorneys Vinson & Elkins
- Spencer Abraham
Sec. of Energy - Got $10,000 from Enron for his failed Senate race.
- Charlotte Beers - Under Sec. of State - Large Enron shareholder
- Elizabeth Moler - No. 2 at Dept. of Energy - Large Enron shareholder
- Nicholas Cario - White House Dir. Legislative Affairs - Large Enron shareholder.
- Margaret Tutwiler - US Ambassador to Morocco - Large Enron shareholder.
- D. Stephen Goddard
G.W. Bush "Pioneer" contributor - Arthur Anderson regional manager
- Cynthia DeLay - Enron lobbyist - Wife of Republican Whip, Tom DeLay.