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Keeping old flames in line. Enron's Jeff Skilling funded Photofete, his ex-girlfriend's photography business, with a measly $150,000 investment.

Meanwhile, Enron beneficiary George W Bush has decided to make his ex-girlfriend US ambassador to Hungary:

President Bush, frustrated in efforts to make ex-girlfriend April Foley the head of the Export-Import Bank, has decided to name her as U.S. ambassador to Hungary without formally announcing it.

The top Ex-Im job was vacant for months when the Justice Department took a long look at Foley's financial records. Her proposed nomination is in the hands of the Hungarian government, as was reported by that nation's press.

"Although she is not related to U.S. President George W. Bush, like her immediate predecessor [Amb. George Herbert Walker]," said the Budapest Business Journal, "Foley's appointment would follow a tradition of having a trusted old friend of the Bush family at the helm of the embassy." Bush dated Foley when they both were students at the Harvard Business School.

More about April Foley can be found in the delightful Skimble archives.

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