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John Clifford "Cliff" Baxter (September 27, 1958 – January 25, 2002) was an Enron Corporation executive who resigned in May 2001 before committing suicide the following year. Prior to his death he had agreed to testify before Congress in the Enron scandal .
Enron also mounts a PR campaign to portray itself as a profitable, prosperous, and innovative company, even though its worldwide operations are performing poorly. Elsewhere, Enron begins ambitious initiatives, such as attempts to use broadband technology to deliver movies on demand and to "trade weather" like a commodity. Both initiatives fail ...
An elaborate parody appears to be behind an effort to resurrect Enron, the Houston-based energy company that exemplified the worst in American corporate fraud and greed after it went bankrupt in 2001.
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Kenneth Lay, Enron's former chairman, died of a heart attack in 2006, one month after his career ended with a criminal conviction for lying to investors about the company's finances. 'Birds aren't ...
It’s the comeback story no one asked for — the resurrection of a brand so toxic it remains synonymous with corporate fraud more than two decades after it collapsed in bankruptcy. That’s ...
I just can't be any good to you or myself. The pain is overwhelming. Please try to forgive me. Cliff—J. Clifford Baxter." [10] [23] — J. Clifford Baxter, Enron executive (25 January 2002); his suicide note, addressed to his wife. Baxter had been slated to testify before United States congressional committees concerning the Enron scandal.
The college-age son of former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling has been found dead in the California apartment where the student lived. John Taylor Skilling, 20, was found dead Thursday laying near bottles ...