John Emshwiller
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265 appearances
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1 series
first heard Oct 2021
last heard Oct 2021
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My name is John Emschweiler.
For four decades, I was a Wall Street Journal reporter.
In that time, I wrote a lot of stories.
There's one that stuck with me more than any other.
Enron.
It's been 20 years now since Enron fell into bankruptcy.
Within weeks, tens of billions of dollars, thousands of jobs, gone.
Retirement plans destroyed.
And that was just the beginning.
Congressional committees rushed to investigate.
The Justice Department launched an epic criminal probe.
The CFO, chief accounting officer, treasurer, and more than a dozen others pleaded guilty.
In perhaps the highest-profile corporate fraud trial in U.S.
history, former CEO Jeff Skilling was convicted.
He maintained his innocence, but he spent more than a decade in prison.
Here's a measure of just how big a deal Enron was.
On the FBI's list of its most famous cases, JFK's assassination, Watergate, 9-11.
It's the only corporate name.
My colleague Rebecca Smith and I broke the stories that Enron officials blamed, in part, for sparking the company's collapse.
This podcast, based on hundreds of interviews, years of reporting, and reams of court documents, is about how it all happened and why today the Enron story is as relevant as ever.
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