Write 3 Paragraphs For Your Response: analysis your discussion to bring depth for your discussion AND don't forget your critical thinking skills In the Titanic, the captain went down with the ship. In Enron, it looks to me like the captain first gave himself and some friends a bonus, then lowered himself and the top folks down in the lifeboat and then hollered up and said, by the way, everything is going to be just fine. Like Skilling, Ken Lay said he hadn't done anything wrong. Could we have a word with you real quickly? We're with CNN. Really not this morning, thank you. Beyond the financial issues, some suspected a political conspiracy. Enron had been the largest corporate contributor to the first presidential campaign of George W. Bush. This is not a political issue, it is a business issue. You know Enron had made contributions to a lot of people around Washington D.C. And if they came to this adm inistration looking for help they didn't find any. To say no help had is like, 'I did not have political relations with that man, Mr. Lay.' What about the fact that George W. Bush calls Ken Lay, Kenny Boy? That's my nickname for my husband, which he overheard. So it wasn't original, with the President? It certainly wasn't. According to published reports, your husband earned about 300 million dollars in, in compensation, in stocks from Enron over the last four years. What happened to all that money? It's gone. It's gone. There's nothing left. This is the shredded evidence we got that came out of Enron. We very quickly detemined that the insiders had sold off a billion dollars of their stock in the preceding several months. Did you convert stock worth 66 million dollars? I don't know, but... I don't have the records with me... Would that be surprising to you to leam that you did that? No, that would not be surprising. Mr. Fastow got only 30 million in stock proceeds from Enron, but he took another 30 million out, with his side deals. I think there was just an immediate sense of outrage at Lay and Skilling and Fastow when people realized how much they had profited, and how completely artificial the appearance of this company had been. News of shredding at Enron raised more questions. What answers were lost in the torn documents? 20,000 employees had lost their jobs. $2 billion in pensions and retirem ent funds had disappeared. Was Enron the work of a few bad men or the dark shadow of the American dream? Lay comes to the story of Enron from very humble roots