Rebecca Smith
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49 appearances
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1 series
first heard Oct 2021
last heard Oct 2021
Rebecca Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Its list of creditors was 54 single-spaced pages.
So this was a massive bankruptcy filing.
It would, in fact, go from being this highly respected company into being this massive symbol of corporate dishonesty.
It happened so rapidly.
Houston was to energy what Wall Street was to finance and what Silicon Valley was to the tech industry.
It was the center.
There's a massive gas pipeline system.
Of course, there are oil and gas reserves in Texas.
Many big companies were based there.
Enron had a certain swagger.
And at the time, of course, I was in California.
I was never sure, is this just Texas?
Is it the Texas swagger or is it the Enron swagger?
Enron was the flashiest, brashiest player.
Jeff Skilling's resignation was just a stunning, shocking thing to have happened.
I mean, this is a man who'd spent years working his way up to become CEO.
And, you know, he'd barely gotten the seat warm.
Ken Lay was always a very affable, congenial, polite person to talk with.
As you know, he grew up on a farm in Missouri.
He could make you feel you'd had a visit instead of an interview.
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