The FBI-recovered Enron computer email disclosed a May 17, 2001 meeting between Sch*zenegger and Ken Lay (i.e. after the $Billions had already been gamed-stolen) and almost-immediately upon Lt. Gov Bustamante announcing he was filing a lawsuit in an attempt to recover the stolen funds via California's Unfair Business Practices Act (after FERC commissioners — two of three appointed by Bush on recommendation of Ken Lay! — spurned Gray Davis' efforts at the federal level)...and BEFORE Sch*zenegger's "decision" to become a Recall Election candidate.
Timeline:
May 2, 2001: GOV. CRUZ BUSTAMANTE SUES TO STEM ENERGY CRISIS, ACCUSES ENERGY CARTEL OF ILLEGAL PRICE-FIXING
May 17, 2001: (from "Arnold Unplugged - It's Hasta la Vista to $9 Billion if the Governator is Selected" by Greg Palast, Oct 4, 2003)
The wannabe governor has yet to deny that on May 17, 2001, at the Peninsula Hotel in Los Angeles, he had consensual political intercourse with Enron chieftain Kenneth Lay. Also frolicking with Arnold and Ken was convicted stock swindler Mike Milken.
Now, thirty-four pages of internal Enron memoranda have just come through this reporter's fax machine tell all about the tryst between Maria's husband and the corporate con men. It turns out that Schwarzenegger knowingly joined the hush-hush encounter as part of a campaign to sabotage a Davis-Bustamante plan to make Enron and other power pirates then ravaging California pay back the $9 billion in illicit profits they carried off.
Here's the story Arnold doesn't want you to hear. The biggest single threat to Ken Lay and the electricity lords is a private lawsuit filed last year under California's unique Civil Code provision 17200, the "Unfair Business Practices Act." This litigation, heading to trial now in Los Angeles, would make the power companies return the $9 billion they filched from California electricity and gas customers.
Aug 7, 2003LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- After dropping hints about his political ambitions, movie action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Wednesday that he will run for California governor in October's recall election.
The surprise announcement came during a Wednesday afternoon taping of NBC's "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno which was scheduled to air Wednesday night. Prior to the taping, it had been widely speculated that Schwarzenegger, 56, would announce he would not run.
BBC investigator, Greg Palast, broke the FBI/Enron story on the net and predicted what would happen if Sch*zenegger were elected. Palast was, unfortunately, spot on: Sch*zenegger took care of Ken Lay-&-energy-friends' interests by overriding Bustamante's authority and settling the latter's lawsuit in the very first week in office. Pete Wilson apparently had been an advisor to Sch*zenegger as well as the designer of the deregulation plan itself (about which Wilson had been informed of its imperfection — 'Let the democrats fix it.')
Arnold's main purpose for "running" -- at least a primary one -- seems to have been securing the $9B for the crooks by overriding Bustamante's authority. Later, Sch*zenegger would lead efforts to replace democratic SoS Kevin Shelley with appointee Bruce MacPherson, charged with re-certifying Diebold voting machines that Shelley had de-certified in four counties. These two tasks — huge for a "neophyte" politician, with Neocon
destabilization/bankrupting of California as goal — are enough to have been Sch*zenegger's motivations for running.
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