Word: fastow
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...Richard Causey? Although the career accountant had kept a lower profile, Causey was scheduled to go on trial with Lay and Skilling. Like Andrew Fastow, the mastermind of Enron's shady financing, Causey reported directly to the top two execs. He handled the accounting for the "off--balance sheet partnerships" designed by Fastow that sank the Houston energy firm...
...names in this up-to-date Ponzi scheme--Kenneth Lay, Jeff Skilling and Andrew Fastow, right--declined, perhaps understandably, to grant Gibney formal interviews, but not to worry: there's plenty of old video, and in it they are completely, utterly plausible, nicely turned out, easy in manner, born to lead mighty enterprises into uncharted territory...
...execs are labeled “ex-nerds” and are repeatedly compared to a clique of popular high school students who terrorize their school. Enron CFO Andy Fastow is unfavorably compared to the Cheshire Cat, and the description of executive Lou Pai focuses more on his sexual deviancy than his fiscal misconduct...
...documentary “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” was released in movie theaters. A detailed account of one of the biggest business scandals, the documentary has its share of entertaining villains, including Enron chairman Kenneth Lay, former CEO Jeffrey Skilling and CFO Andrew Fastow. Yet, what caught my attention was its sole hero—whistleblower Sherron Watkins—who wrote the memo heard around the world, warning Lay that the company’s accounting practices were looking very shady...
...loan Enron had just obtained by offering its precious pipelines as collateral. But one egregious comment Lay made that fateful October day could end up as his salvation. During the conference call with analysts, he professed the "highest faith and confidence" in the company's chief financial officer, Andrew Fastow, who the next day suddenly took what became a permanent leave of absence. Nearly three years later, Lay claims he was unaware of Fastow's misdeeds, a defense strategy casting Lay as the world's most clueless CEO, sincerely waving his pom-poms as his team got crushed...