You’ve gone and ticked off Ralph. Nader calls for a probe into Dubya’s Harken stock dump.
Category: Enron, Etc.
Blame Business Casual.
Robin Givhan of the Post blames the recent corporate scandals on Dress-Down Fridays. Somehow, I don’t think most of these guys would be any more straight-laced in a power tie.
Grand Moff Harken.
Just as the Bush White House tries to sidestep the corporate scandals, Dubya changes his story about a Martha Stewart-esque stock dump he made as director of Harken Energy Corporation in 1990, two months before the shares went sour.
Achilles’ Heel.
While the Dems pressure Bush to do more about corporate malfeasance, Salon aptly notes that Dubya’s in deep.
Release the Hounds.
The SEC vows to delve into Halliburton mismanagement, despite what Dick Cheney has to say in the matter.
End of the Worldcom.
Joining Enron and Martha Stewart in infamy, Worldcom cooks the books for $3.8 billion. It’s not like either the telecom industry or the economy at large need another hit right now, and this one’s going to be a doozy. Good news for the Dems, at least, but I wonder what this’ll mean for UUNet. Update: Bush vows a probe into the situation. Hey, let’s not forget about Enron there, bud.
Corporate Malfeasance.
Frank Rich wonders aloud if all the recent hem-hawing about the Watergate anniversary might be better spent monitoring today’s Imperial Executives. (Thanks, Tim.)
Lobbyists Strike Back.
The “feeding frenzy is over,” according to Phil Gramm, and corporate lobbyists are breathing a sigh of relief. The impetus stalls for post-Enron corporate reform in Congress.