Sen. Maria Cantwell requests more Enron tapes

[icymist]

Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - Page updated at 08:16 A.M.

Sen. Maria Cantwell requests more Enron tapes

By Christopher Schwarzen
Times Snohomish County bureau

EVERETT — Sen. Maria Cantwell yesterday urged the U.S. Department of Justice to publicly release the remainder of Enron day-trading tapes that utilities claim show more evidence of price gouging dating to 1999.
The Snohomish County Public Utility District, which released written transcripts of about eight weeks' worth of the tapes in May, said it and other utilities need the tapes to further their legal cases against Enron, an energy trader now seeking bankruptcy.

On the tapes, Enron day traders can be heard laughing and joking about how the company was manipulating the markets while many West Coast residents sat in the dark because of blackouts and increased rates. The PUD says the taped conversations show how Enron controlled energy supplies to the West Coast, causing more demand and higher prices.

Enron officials even requested PUD employees' assistance to further manipulate the market but to no avail, PUD officials have said.

The PUD said it was concerned that employees might have helped Enron and that was another reason it wanted the tapes.

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[happyending]

1. but

Enron was President Bush's

NUMBER 1

campaign contributor!

There wouldn't have been any reason for him to look the other way while Enron was raping Grandma Millie, would there?

[Mountainman]

2. I wish all those who blamed CA and Davis and environmentalists

for the energy shortages would politely apologize for all their attacks on us.

If any freeper lurkers who took the side of Cheney saying that it was CA's problem are here today. I'm ready to forgive if you're ready to apologize.