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Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 11:02:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: jim.schwieger@enron.com
To: kenneth.lay@enron.com, boardroom@enron.com
Subject: Financial Disclosure of $1.2 Billion Equity Adjustment
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For the first time in 22 years of service for Enron I'm ashamed to admit th=
at I work for Enron!  I have lost all respect for Enron Senior Management a=
nd agree with the Financial Analyst when they say that Enron Senior Managem=
ent can not be trusted.  Ethics and Morals are either something everyone el=
se needs to have except Senior Management or somewhere along the way Senior=
 Management started believing the end justifies the means.  The communicati=
on the Employee's have received over the last few years about values such a=
s Respect, Integrity, Communication and excellence must be propaganda inten=
ded to get Employee's to believe Senior Management really supported these v=
alues so that no one would really notice that their actions represented som=
ething just the opposite.

I can not believe that Senior Management lacks the understanding of human n=
ature to totally ignore the fact that if someone does not trust what you ha=
ve said in the past you should not try and conceal pertinent information in=
 the future.  Then to allow an Enron Spokesperson to speak for Enron with t=
he statement "It's just a balance-sheet issue"  implies to me that this ind=
ividual does not know what a Balance Sheet or Income Statement is and certa=
inly should not be speaking to the public.  If you are going to play the ga=
me of lying, cheating and stealing at least be intelligent enough to presen=
t a plausible story.  To use phrases such as it was a hedge against fluctua=
ting values in some of Enron's broadband telecommunications and other techn=
ology investments is a complete insult to my intelligence and to the defini=
tion of the word "HEDGE".  A hedge by definition implies that the upside an=
d downside exposure has been limited.  It frightens me that we are out aski=
ng customers to let Enron help them "HEDGE" their risk when I'm not sure En=
ron's Senior Management understands what a hedge means?

I'm also confused as to the personal financial involvement of Andy Fastow i=
n the investment vehicle that generated this write down.  I must be confuse=
d in that as a Trader Enron has asked me to sign documents declaring that I=
 will not have any personal financial involvement in anything involving the=
 Natural Gas Business.  This must be an example of as my father used to say=
 " do as I say not as I do"? I guess we need to have audits performed of Se=
nior Managements financial interest to insure their actions are as good as =
their word?

The fact that Senior Management and the ENE Board of Directors knew these t=
ransactions were being used to manipulate earnings and the stock price and =
took advantage of that knowledge to sell their ENE stock options in my opin=
ion is "CRIMINAL".  It provides me no comfort to know that the biggest perp=
etrators of this fraud have left Enron in recent months.  These individuals=
 have stolen billions of dollars from ENE stockholders and Employees and ne=
ed to pay the price for such fraudulent activity.  They are set for life, h=
aving all the money they could ever need, while Employees and Stockholders =
have lost their life savings.  You have completely failed at the job you we=
re hired to perform.  If this type of activity would have occurred farther =
down the organization no one would hesitate to fire the individuals involve=
d and to institute criminal charges.  =20

I for one can not wait until the All Employee meeting next week.  I do not =
think anyone wants to hear about third quarter results because how could we=
 trust what is said anyway.  Instead I feel you owe the ENE Employee's a th=
orough explanation of how you failed to perform your responsibilities, what=
 actions are going to be taken and most of all apologize for the job perfor=
mance to date.=20