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By Lesley Curwen
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image captionWashington DC, 2002: Sherron Watkins recounting to Senators how she uncovered the accounting scandal at Enron
I was crouching on the marble floor of a US Senate committee room, hunched over a recording machine, as witnesses swore to tell the truth about the breath-taking collapse of Enron, the seventh largest company in the US.
Just a few months earlier in 2001, this brash Texan energy giant had been exposed for hiding huge losses, and declared bankruptcy.
You could have heard a pin drop as former Enron executive and whistleblower Sherron Watkins recounted to Senators how she uncovered the accounting scandal.
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Tuesday, 15 June 2021, 8:49 am
(Our Supposed “Law and Order” Society Severely
Punishes Human Rapists and Plunderers, but Slaps the Wrists
of Their Corporate Counterparts)
by Gary G. Kohls, MD
– June 14, 2021 (an Update of an April 24, 2011 Duty Warn
Column (2308 words) Slavery is the legal fiction
that a person is property. Corporate personhood is the legal
fiction that property is a person.
Anonymous
The infamous decision of the
NeoConservative, pro-corporate, US Supreme Court in their
infamous “Citizens United” decision in 2010 has further
strengthened the already powerful and over-privileged status
of the corruptible, purely profit-mitivated, multinational
corporations that control most everything in the United