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In June of 2004, the Department of Justice released to the Snohomish Public Utility District in Washington state some tapes from the Enron energy company regarding an energy crisis that had hit up and down the west coast. The tapes were obtained because various victimized localities were trying to claw back the money that Enron had gouged out of them through its criminal manipulation of the energy markets. If there were four people in the country who still didn’t believe that Enron was a pack of thieving bastards, these tapes were the final railroad spikes in the company’s coffin. From CBS News: