Enron - The Black Box | 2

American Scandal

Wondery

True Crime, Exhibit C, Society & Culture, History, Documentary, History Daily, American History Tellers, Lindsay Graham

4.6 • 18.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Enron manipulates California's electricity market for financial gain, and the state is plunged into an energy crisis. Meanwhile, the schemes of a corrupt CFO, a rocky transition of power, and an alarming discovery by Sherron Watkins, threaten to tear the company apart.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to American scandal, add free on Amazon music, download
0:05.8	the app today.
0:09.9	Enron Chi Financial Officer Andy Fastow is about to kill an alligator.
0:23.9	That's what former Enron COO Rich Kinder used to call it.
0:27.6	He said that Enron's problems were like alligators, and to fix them you had to get in the swamp,
0:32.5	kick out all the alligators, then kill them one by one.
0:36.2	Fastow likes to remind himself of this every time someone at Enron becomes a problem, and
0:40.5	when that happens, it's time to go alligators hunting.
0:45.5	Fastow gets out of his chair and paces, with each passing second he gets a little angrier.
0:50.8	Then there's a knock at the door, today's alligator has arrived.
0:54.9	It's open!
0:56.7	Jeff McMahon enters.
0:58.3	Enron corporate treasurer, glorified accountants more like it, and Fastow hates him.
1:03.4	You wanted to see me Andy?
1:04.4	Yeah, how'd you meet with Jeff Goh?
1:06.9	My meeting with Jeff's killing?
1:08.8	Did you slip your mind?
1:10.7	You don't remember speaking to Jeff behind my back?
1:13.3	Andy, do we really have to do this?
1:15.1	You have a problem?
1:16.1	Talk, right now.
1:18.0	Fine.
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