Favors for Enron

Enron Corp. ran a formidable lobbying machine in Washington and state capitals that gained favorable treatment from state and national governments on no fewer than 49 occasions from the late 1980s to the company's scandal-ridden bankruptcy last year. A new report from the Center for Public Integrity lists the favors Enron obtained, the former government officials who worked for Enron, and 28 separate coalitions that aided Enron's lobbying activities. The list of Enron-affiliated front groups and fundees includes the Alliance for Lower Electric Rates Today, Americans for Affordable Electricity, Americans for Fair Taxation, Citizens for a Sound Economy, International Climate Change Partnership, National Wetlands Coalition, and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.