doug: tonight, the enron scandal. we have a tweet about it. wanting to know what happened about the employees who virtually lost everything. tonight, the answers from casey stegall. garrett ashmore started his first company from college. by graduation, the young entrepreneur landed his first job with a prestigious company in texas. i came to enron. i went to their pipeline side. i was very fortunate to start enron communications. it was the late 90s. business appeared to be booming. houston-based enron. it started to crumble in august 2001. they had created numerous off-balance sheet entities that investors were not aware of. to hide poor results from
unconscious the morning of a father-daughter dance. he called 911, gave her mouth to mouth. she was already gone. i always ask myself how did we go from picking rings, college campus visits, to picking out a casket. with my own children, i can see what path they were going down. but i never thought in a million years that i would lose three. three sons. police officials say they try to educate anyone who will listen about the dangers of these drugs but when it comes to the opioid epidemic, they say it s a problem that can t be solved with police alone. doug: ellison barber, thank you. up next, whatever happened to the people affected by the enron scandal? here s what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering.
street scandals exposed all the time, most recently at wells faring oechl criminal prosecutions for financial fraud have been falling ever since the clinton administration and especially fast under president obama. in the 80s and0s during the savings & loans crisis, prosecutors convicted nearly 900 people including the chief executives of several banks who went to jail. the enron scandal in 2001 led to both being convicted. as rudy giuliani himself a former top u.s. attorney once said, the rules apply to mob big shots like fat tony salano and big shots at goldman sachs, too. they certainly should but don t anymore. what happened? eric holder happened. in 1999 he wrote what s become known as the holder memo. he was the deputy attorney general and issued a memorandum to u.s. attorneys informing them when deciding whether to charge a corporation with a
time, most recently at wells faring oechl criminal prosecutions for financial fraud have been falling ever since the clinton administration and especially fast under president obama. in the 80s and0s during the savings & loans crisis, prosecutors convicted nearly 900 people including the chief executives of several banks who went to jail. the enron scandal in 2001 led to both being convicted. as rudy giuliani himself a former top u.s. attorney once said, the rules apply to mob big shots like fat tony salano and big shots at goldman sachs, too. they certainly should but don t anymore. what happened? eric holder happened. in 1999 he wrote what s become known as the holder memo. he was the deputy attorney general and issued a memorandum to u.s. attorneys informing them when deciding whether to charge a corporation with a crime they can, quote, take
hour. the president announcing his pick to replaced the fired fbi director, james comey. we re told his top communication staff and senior white house team learned about it the same way everybody else did. from the president s tweet. today the president tweeted this. i will be nominated christopher a. wray, a man of impeccable credentials to be the new director of the fbi. details to follow. the official statement from the white house came hours later. we know the president s statement are matters of policy because his white house spokesperson told us so. what we know about this man, he s a lawyer that served as assistant attorney general during the george w. bush administration. he was in charge of the criminal division and led the task force that investigated the enron scandal. since leaving the department of justice, he s worked as a private in private practice at a law firm. he was new jersey governor crist christie s personal lawyer during the bridgegate scandal in