October 24, 2006

Jeff Skilling and Enron’s Glory Days, Captured in Email

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As former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling heads off to the pokey, you can relive the good ol’ days at the Death Star with the Enron Explorer, a searchable database of company emails sent by Skilling, Ken Lay, and their underlings. Read as they joke about shredding documents, plan meetings between Lay and Cheney, flirt with co-workers, and beg not to be fired as things go south. And see Skilling in R-rated action as he tells a fellow exec, “I can’t wait to see you
go down with the ship like all the other vermin.” Good times.

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