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It was just kind of a general discussion. Lay came to the White House in - early in my administration along with, I think, twenty other business leaders to discuss the state of the economy. Ken Lay was very personal, very close with the Bush family. Bush, and they exchanged Christmas cards with each other. fondly called вЂњKenny Boy,вЂќ was the major campaign contributor to George W. In the corporate world, sometimes things arenвЂ™t exactly black and white when it comes to accounting procedures, and the SECвЂ™s job is to rev - is to look and is to determine whether or not, whether or not, whether or not the decision by the auditors was the appropriate decision. BUSH: By far, the vast majority of CEOs in America are good honorable, honest people. Now, George tried to downplay his links with EnronвЂ™s Ken Lay and other corrupt bosses.

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GREG PALAST: But Enron squandered their California windfall in a series of spectacular frauds which imploded, leaving thousands jobless and pensioners bankrupt. JIM HIGHTOWER: Consumers in California were being stiffed, and Enron was raking in hundreds of millions of dollars during that period in corrupt profits. JIM HIGHTOWER: What did the Bush administration do? It refused to impose price controls to put a cap on those utility prices, meaning a company like Enron could set its own prices to consumers.Д¬ORPORATE EXECUTIVE: Show me the money! Show me the money!Д¬RAIG McDONALD: He was delivering a favor in a policy that the donors who put him in that office want. JIM HIGHTOWER: How proud we are to be the number one state in the country in air pollution.Д¬RAIG McDONALD: Ken Lay, got almost total complete energy deregulation out of George Bush. George Bush gave them an environmental clean air policy that any corporation would lust after.

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BUSH: Instead of the government telling utilities where and how to cut pollution, we will give them a firm deadline and let them find the most innovative ways to meet it.Д¬RAIG McDONALD: These same funders were sick and tired of trying to play by the environmental rules and regulations. He enacted the policy and the policy was strictly voluntary, did nothing to clean up the air, yet he touted it as a major accomplishment. GREG PALAST: Even before he takes the presidential oath, Bush forms a secret task force, including EnronвЂ™s Ken Lay to rewrite AmericaвЂ™s environmental and energy laws.Д¬RAIG McDONALD: He put the very people who funded him in the room to devise a clean air policy. Our guest, Greg Palast, examined the connections between Enron and the Bush administration in his documentary, Bush Family Fortunes. Shortly after Bush took office in 2001, Vice President Cheney met with Enron officials while he was developing the administrationвЂ™s energy policies. According to the Center for Public Integrity, this made Enron BushвЂ™s top career donor, a distinction the company maintained until 2004.

The President personally nicknamed Ken Lay вЂњKenny Boy.вЂќ Overall, Enron employees gave Bush some $600,000 in political donations. The family donated about $140,000 to BushвЂ™s political campaigns in Texas and for the White House. Enron founder Ken Lay and his family rank among President BushвЂ™s biggest financial backers of his political career.

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Craig Murray, former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan.ДЄMY GOODMAN: One of the things that wasnвЂ™t addressed very much yesterday, though there was wall-to-wall coverage of the trial and the verdict that came down yesterday for Skilling and for Lay - Ken Lay found guilty on every count - is the connection between President Bush and Enron.He spoke about the relationship between President Bush and the Uzbek regime of President Karimov. In January, we interviewed the former ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray. Excerpt of the documentary вЂњBush Family FortunesвЂќ.Д®nronвЂ™s influence reached as far as Uzbekistan.Our guest Greg Palast examined the connections between Enron and the Bush administration in his documentary вЂњBush Family Fortunes.вЂќ According to the Center for Public Integrity this made Enron BushвЂ™s top career donorвЂ“a distinction the company maintained until 2004. The president personally nicknamed Ken Lay вЂњKenny Boy.вЂќ Overall Enron employees gave Bush some $600,000 in political donations. We turn now to the connections between President Bush and Enron.

Enron the smartest guys in the room transcript documentary