CFO Andrew Fastow stole approximately $35 million from Enron through his shell companies, which Skilling and Lay allegedly tolerated because his schemes were so useful.
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Josh asks the question listeners are likely screaming: how did anyone believe any of this? The answer is a cascade of institutional failure. Wall Street analysts didn't understand what they were being told on earnings calls but gave 'buy' ratings anyway. Major banks were knowingly complicit. And Arthur Andersen — an 80-year-old firm considered the gold standard of American accounting — had been so thoroughly captured by Enron that it hired Enron's own internal auditors and opened a 150-person office inside Enron's own headquarters. That's who was 'independently' auditing the books. One interviewee in the documentary crystallises the horror: every corporation has malfeasance, but it never gets this big because at some point a lawyer, an accountant, or a bank says 'stop.' At Enron, every single person along the way just zipped their mouth. An Enron trader interviewed in the documentary admits he didn't use the company's own slogan 'Ask why' on himself — because he didn't want to know.
Arthur Andersen, the oldest accounting firm in America, didn't just rubber-stamp Enron's fraudulent books — it hired Enron's own internal auditors and opened a 150-person office inside Enron's headquarters to do the 'independent' auditing. Everyone signed off, nobody asked questions, and Arthur Andersen ceased to exist after the scandal.
In early 2001, Fortune journalist Bethany McLean published 'Is Enron Overpriced?' — among the first public challenges to the company's finances. Short-seller Jim Chanos had already been betting against Enron since 2000, having noticed that Enron's cost of capital exceeded its return on investment, making it mathematically not profitable. He made hundreds of millions shorting the stock.
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