The Ledger
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Ken Lay's wife dumped 500,000 shares minutes before Enron's bailout deal collapsed
“At 10:20 a.m., 10 minutes before the news comes out, Ken Lay's wife sells 500,000 shares of Enron stock that the Kenan whatever her name is, that the Lay Family Foundation held.”
Rosenthal: Buying Enron stock at 61 cents yielded over a 10x return
“So if you had bought Enron equity in those days between the collapsing of the Dinergy merger And the bankruptcy, if you had bought for 61 cents, you would have had over a ten-x return if you were willing to hang on for seven years.”
Rosenthal: Berkshire Hathaway Energy acquired Enron's former pipeline assets from Dynegy
“Who ends up buying the pipelines but Berkshire Hathaway Energy.”
Rosenthal: Dynegy agreed to acquire Enron for $8B and lent $1.5B
“Dyna G's gonna Acquire Enron for eight billion dollars, an all stock deal, no cash, but Enron of course needs more cash to survive until the deal can close and Dynergy can complete its due diligence. So Dynergy lends one and a half billion dollars to Enron in …”