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California-Energy-Crisis

17 entries

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Bill Williams III

Real-time scheduler and trader on Enron's West Power Trading desk in Portland who supervised shift operations, managed CAISO scheduling, and whose emails document load shift and congestion management strategies during the California energy crisis.

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Elizabeth Sager

Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at Enron North America who specialized in power trading master agreements and led industry standardization efforts for the EEI and WSPP contracts.

Enron Trading Operations

The wholesale energy trading business that transformed Enron from a pipeline company into the world's largest energy trader, generating billions in profits through gas and power trading desks organized by geographic region and commodity.

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Ginger Dernehl

Administrative Coordinator in Enron's Government Affairs department who served as the central distribution hub for regulatory intelligence, department communications, and policy updates under Steven Kean and Richard Shapiro.

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Janet R. Dietrich

Senior Enron executive who served as Managing Director of multiple Enron entities and became President of Enron Energy Services and a member of the Enron Management Committee in August 2001.

Jeffrey S. Richter

Manager of Enron's Short-Term California trading desk who pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy in 2003 and became a key cooperating witness in federal prosecutions of senior Enron executives.

John M. Forney

Manager of Enron's Real-Time Trading Desk and architect of the 'Death Star' scheme who pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy in 2004 after designing strategies to manipulate California's electricity markets.

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Kate Symes

Deal Control specialist at Enron's West Power Trading desk in Portland who managed broker checkout operations, trade reconciliation, and Dow Jones price index coordination during the California energy crisis.

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Mark E. Haedicke

Managing Director and General Counsel of Enron Wholesale Services who oversaw the company's largest legal department and was criticized by the Powers Report for dismissing internal warnings about the Raptor accounting fraud.

Mark Guzman

Real-time scheduler and trader on Enron's West Power Trading desk in Portland who managed California ISO operations and Pacific Northwest power flows during the energy crisis.

Michelle Lokay

Account Director at Transwestern Pipeline who managed Permian Basin capacity contracts and California delivery operations for Enron Transportation Services.

Mike Grigsby

Director of West Desk Gas Trading at Enron who managed the IM West physical book and specialized in Gas Daily basis products for Southern California markets during the 2000-2001 energy crisis.

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Phillip Allen

Vice President of West Gas Trading at Enron, managing natural gas trading operations for California, the Rocky Mountains, and the Pacific Northwest during the California energy crisis.

Portland General Electric

Oregon's largest electric utility, acquired by Enron in 1997 for $3.1 billion and inadvertently entangled in the California energy crisis through Enron's Portland-based West Power trading desk

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Richard B. Sanders

Associate General Counsel for Litigation at Enron Wholesale Services who managed all trading litigation, architected the company's email retention policy, and received the 'Death Star' memos detailing California market manipulation schemes.

Robert Badeer

Enron West Power trader whose recorded phone conversation about 'Grandma Millie' became the defining symbol of corporate callousness during the California energy crisis.

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Tim Belden

Head of Enron's West Power Trading Division and architect of California energy market manipulation schemes who pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy in 2002.