culture, politics, commentary, criticism

Monday, December 02, 2002
Hello, Dynegy people! According to Google search terms that lead to you to this site (like "whistleblower," "Ted Beatty," and "Anthony Corrino"), lately you have been visiting here because of
this post referring to the whistleblower story in The Wall Street Journal.

Retracing your steps, I googled the same terms and found the site dedicated to the case against the Dynegy 401(k) plan:
The Complaint alleges that during the Class Period the defendants breached their fiduciary duties when they were made aware of numerous facts that made Dynegy stock an inappropriate investment for the Plan. [...]

This case was filed against: Jane D. Jones, Robert D. Doty, Jr., Andrea Lang, Sheli Z. Rosenberg, Patricia M. Eckert, Charles E. Bayless, Michael D. Capellas, Glenn F. Tilton, Charles L. Watson, Stephen W. Bergstrom, Daniel L. Dienstbier, Jerry L. Johnson, H. John Riley, Jr., Joe J. Stewart, J. Otis Winters, Darald W. Callahan, and John S. Watson[...]
The above site, with the appropriate name of erisafraud.com, is apparently the production of a law firm:
Keller Rohrback and its co-counsel serve as lead or co-lead counsel in a class action on behalf of employees in 401(k) litigation involving the following companies: Enron, Providian, Williams Companies, Xerox, CMS Energy, Dynegy, Duke Energy, WorldCom and Lucent. Additionally, Keller Rohrback is involved in 401(k) litigation with respect to the following companies: Global Crossing, BellSouth, Conseco and Household International.
We are not affiliated with any of the parties, or their accounting firms or legal representation. We are just a guy who follows the story. So why do we care? Because corporate misbehavior has stolen a fortune from the small investors of this country, us included. Add to that a political environment which indicts an accounting firm (Andersen), protects its political-contributor clients (Enron upper management at large), and exacts restitution from neither, and the worst forms of corruption and financial mayhem become commonplace, as indeed they have.

Meanwhile, Lay's lawyer Michael Ramsey seems confident that his client will have "some pretty good answers" for charges against him, according to the Houston Chronicle. Unbelievably good, no doubt.

Never forget that privatization of Social Security was a scheme whose net effect would have been to siphon off even more than the billions already lost by normal people. A Republican scheme, that is.

All hat, no cattle, and the hat isn't even white.
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