The deregulation was forced through by legislators to whom Enron paid out massive contributions..." (Levy, 2005)

The fraud was primarily comprised of "cooking the books to make it look as if the company's finances were consistently rosy, so that share prices would steadily keep rising." (Levy, 2005) More than 30 individuals have received criminal charges since 2001 connected to their dealing with Enron which incidentally "was just one of several companies revealed to have been practicing this sort of fraud..." (Levy, 2005) it is interesting that most of these companies are known to have provided hefty contributions to "politicians of every stripe, but had particularly strong links to the Republicans and to Bush." (Levy, 2005)

IV. Enron is Biggest Political Scandal in History

Robert Bryce states in the work entitled: "Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego and the Death of Enron" that the Enron failure "was a mind-boggling event..." And that the...
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