John Emshwiller
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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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At the time, Bradley says it seemed more like a half-truth than a lie.
And that's a good example of, you know, the slippery slope when you start going along with this stuff, how you can become pretty numb toward it all.
It was only in retrospect that I realized that, yeah, I'd participated in this and there was something really wrong with it.
When I look back at Enron, there are a lot of moments like these when reality didn't match executives' ambitions.
But most of these moments weren't about a stage play in the sales room.
They were about creating financial facades to mask problems brewing inside the company.
In 2001, reality bit back.
This is Bad Bets, a podcast from The Wall Street Journal that unravels big business dramas that have had a big impact on our world.
Season one, the story of Enron's collapse.
My colleague Rebecca Smith and I will take you inside, show you the successes that made Enron a Wall Street darling, and explore the deceptions that brought it down.
The scandal rocked people's faith in big business.
Because in the eyes of many, it didn't just expose what was wrong at Enron, it exposed unchecked power throughout corporate America.
The story of success became so enticing that for a moment there, it didn't matter if it was fraud.
This is episode one, Potemkin Village.
Potemkin Village.
I came to this story two decades ago, knowing very little about Enron and the world of American energy.
I covered white-collar crime for the journal, but I was paired with Rebecca Smith, the journal's reporter for utilities and power markets.
Enron was part of Repeat.
The company was headquartered in Houston, the epicenter of the U.S.
energy industry.
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