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comment by ButterflyEffect
ButterflyEffect  ·  1374 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 2000–01 California electricity crisis

Nailed it. Follow the history and it leads you here...what I did not know was that Snohomish County is what sunk Enron. I need to watch that documentary.





kleinbl00  ·  1373 days ago  ·  link  ·  

SnoPUD found the plans to the Death Star. A journalist actually fired the photon torpedoes. But yeah, it's hella great. If only to watch the moves of Lou Pai, the only guy who got out of Enron clean.

Best guess? Pai knew something was up because he was at the top. Unfortunately he could either, you know, not be evil and hope the rest of the corrupt-to-the-core nightmare followed along or pull the ripcord (guess which one he did?). Small problem? He couldn't sell any options outside of an "adverse life event".

So he started dating a stripper to force a divorce which allowed him to liquidate his options and resign. He knocked up the stripper, married her, and bought 8000 acres in Colorado. Dude is living his best (chaotic evil) life.