Enron Letter

Jack Roberts

Moderator - Deceased
Robert Theodore Knalur
P.O. Box 10083 Detroit, MI 48501
January 14, 2002

Senator Joseph Leiberman
706 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510

RE: Enron Investigation

Dear Senator Leiberman,

I watched your Sunday morning appearance on Face the Nation with intense
interest. Inasmuch as I own a fair amount of Enron stock in my SEP/IRA,
I'm
sure you can understand my curiosity relative to your investigation.
Knowing you to be an honorable man, I feel secure that you will
diligently
pursue the below listed matters in an effort to determine what part, if
any, these matters contributed to the collapse of Enron.

1. Government records reveal the awarding of seats to Enron executives
and
Ken Lay on four Energy Department trade missions and seven Commerce
Department trade trips during the Clinton administration's eight years.

a. From January 13, 1995 through June 1996, Clinton Commerce Secretary
Ron
Brown and White House Counsel Mack McLarty assisted Ken Lay in closing a
$3
billion dollar power plant deal with India. Four days before India gave
final approval to the deal, Enron gave $100,000 to the DNC. Any quid
pro
quo?

b. Clinton National Security Advisor, Anthony Lake, threatened to
withhold
aid to Mozambique if it didn't approve an Enron pipeline project.
Subsequent to Mr. Lake's threats, Mozambique approved the project,
which
resulted in a further $770 million dollar electric power contract with
Enron. Perhaps, if NSA Advisor Lake had not been so busy strong-arming
for
Enron, he might have been focused on something obliquely related to
national security like, say, Mr. Bin Laden? Could it be that a
different,
somewhat related, investigation is warranted?

c. In 1999, Clinton Energy Secretary Bill Richardson traveled to Nigeria
and helped arrange a joint, varied, energy development program which
resulted in $882 million in power contracts for Enron from Nigeria.
Perhaps if Energy Secretary Richardson had been more focused on
domestic
energy, we might have avoided:
i. The severe loss of nuclear secrets to China and concurrently
ii. developed more domestic sources of energy.

d. Subsequent to leaving Clinton White House employ, Enron hired Mack
McLarty (White House Counsel), Betsy Moler (Deputy Energy Secretary)
and
Linda Robertson (Treasury Official). Even a person without a high
school
diploma (no disrespect to airline security screeners) can see that this
looks like Enron paying off political favors with fat-cat corporate
jobs,
at the expense of stockholders and Enron pension employees.

e. Democratic Mayor Lee P. Brown of Houston (Enron headquarter city),
received $250,000 just before Enron filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Isn't
that
an awful lot of money to throw away right before bankruptcy?

The Democratic National Committee was the recipient of hundreds of
thousands of dollars from 1990 through 2000. The above matters appear
to
be very troubling and look like, smack of, reek of, political favors
for
campaign payoffs. I know you will find out.

2. Recently, former Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin called a top
U.S. Treasury official, asking on Enron's behalf, for government help
with
credit agencies. As you well know, Rubin is the chairman of executive
committee at Citigroup, which just coincidentally, is Enron's largest
unsecured creditor at an estimated $3 billion dollars.

3. As you well know, Mr. Leiberman, Citigroup is Senator Tom Daschle's
largest contributor ($50,000) in addition to being your single largest
contributor ($112,546). This fact brings to mind some disturbing
questions
I feel you must answer.

a. Have you, any member of your staff, any Senate or House colleagues,
any
relatives or any friends of yours, been asked by Citigroup to intercede
on
their behalf, in an effort to recover part or all of Citigroup's $3
billion, at the expense of Enron's shareholders, employees and or Enron
pensioners?

b. Did your largest contributor, Citigroup, have anything to do with the
collapse of Enron?

c. Enron has tens of thousands of employees, stockholders and pensioners
who have lost their life savings. How will you answer their most
obvious
question? Do you represent Citigroup, your largest contributor, or do
you
represent the Enron employees, et al, who stand to lose if Citigroup
recovers any of its $3 billion?

During Sunday's Face the Nation, both you and Senator McCain praised
Attorney General Ashcroft for recusing himself from the Justice
Department
investigation because he had once received a contribution from Enron. I
know in my heart, that, being the honest gentleman you are, you will
now
recuse yourself because of the glaring conflict of interest described
above. I also know that you will pass this letter to your successor for
his or her attention.

Very truly yours,

Robert Theodore Knalur
 
Ok who is Robert Theodore Knalur? I must have missed this one. Is he just a stock holder(not making light of that just curious)or is he something more? Inquiring minds want to know.
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. James L.

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I have no idea who he is, but since he is just pointing out easily verifiable or refutable facts, what difference does it make?

He is someone willing to publicly put his name to a letter to Lieberman. And I can find no falsehoods in it. I did not research it in depth, but it agrees with what I heard.
 
ok thanks for the information. It doesn't make any difference, as long as it is real. I was just asking to verify who it was. I thought that I had missed something about who he was . It is a very informative letter though and as you said it does go along with what has been reported so far. Thanks again and see ya.......James L.

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