In life Enron may

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In life, Enron may not have produced much of value. But in death the company is turning out some extremely high quality comedic product. Maybe there’s hope for the company yet.

Today Enron fired accounting firm Andersen. “We’re very troubled about the destruction of the documents, and we’re very concerned about the accounting advice we got,” said Enron lawyer Bob Bennett.

But Bennett’s just a hired gun.

The real choice material is coming from the big man himself, Ken Lay:

While we had been willing to give Andersen the benefit of the doubt until the completion of that investigation, we can’t afford to wait any longer in light of recent events, including the reported destruction of documents by Andersen personnel and the disciplinary actions taken against several of Andersen’s partners working in its Houston office …

In other news, Bill Clinton is now suing former White House secretary Betty Currie for insufficient supervision of Monica Lewinsky.

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