The Enron case gets stranger and stranger.

Some of the partnerships they created had Star Wars-related names, such as JEDI LP(Joint Energy Development Investment), Chewco Investments LP, Kenobe Inc., and Obi-1 Holdings. Nice to see they had a sense of humor while they were stealing billions of dollars.

Then, they got their own employees to pretend to be electricity and natural gas sales representatives to impress visiting Wall Street analysts. They put everybody in an empty room, brought in computers and phones, told everybody to act busy, and when the analysts came in it looked like a busy trading floor. Reminds me of something from The Sting.

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