John Emshwiller
speaker
265 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2021
last heard Oct 2021
John Emshwiller’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He feared Enron could harm his career.
So we called him our mutual friend.
His identity is a secret we've kept for 20 years.
Was I the first person to talk to the Wall Street Journal?
Yes, I was.
I felt like, finally, somebody is getting this story out in public.
He called Rebecca at the Journal.
I said, what do you know?
And she said, we know very little, but we were hoping, are hoping, somebody comes forward and tells us more about it.
Do you know anything about it?
And I said, well, I was probably the architect of the idea.
What information would you like to have?
Because I've got quite a bit on it.
I told her my name and I asked her to keep me anonymous.
Our mutual friend knew a lot about these outside partnerships.
He'd even worked on them.
He sent Rebecca a trove of material.
It cracked our case open.
And we would soon learn that Enron had been taking extraordinary steps to hide losses, losses that federal prosecutors later said should have been reported to the public, losses of hundreds of millions of dollars.
It was our key to unlocking one of the biggest corporate scandals in American history.
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