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...executive chain, would later have no problem remembering - Andrew Fastow, Michael Kopper, Richard Buy and Richard Causey. The four men, in turn, had no problem taking the Fifth Amendment and quickly departed. Then Tauzin brought out its heroes, former company Treasurer Andrew McMahon and former in-house lawyer Jordan Mintz. Both said they went to Skilling with their concerns about the shady partnerships - and to get his approval on them - and Skilling reportedly gave them the coldest of executive shoulders. Plausible deniability comes in handy when the natural gas hits...
...Still, neither McMahon nor Mintz could conclusively make Skilling culpable - or, as McMahon told the committee: "I don't know how well Skilling was informed." Which was pretty much how Skilling summed it up when he took the stand Thursday afternoon. He left Enron Aug. 14 "for personal reasons," he testified, and at the time sincerely believed that Enron was not only in fine shape but that its financial statements "accurately reflected the company's financial condition...
...blame? Everybody else. Mintz and McMahon nudged the cloud upward toward Skilling (and Lay, and Buy and Causey and Kopper and Fastow). Robert Jaedicke and Herbert Winokur, two Enron board members trying to explain why they missed the whole thing, did likewise, throwing in Arthur Andersen and law firm Vinson & Elkins. Said Winokur: "It appears outside experts...failed us." Officials at both Arthur Andersen and Enron, added Jaedicke, "did not fulfill their duty...
...increase every year. So Siller suggests that the parents set time limits and this way gradually wean their children from dependence. For example, parents might offer to help out with $10,000 one year, $5,000 the next, and that's it. When clients of average means ask Stephen Mintz, a financial planner in Monroe, La., whether they should give money to their children, he insists, "Don't give it to them! It would be better to save it and give them something when...
...Race relations] were terrible," Mintz says. "Most white students spent their four years at college having said five words to black students, if that many...