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Agency benefited from Enron role. (Voluntary Sector).


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 -- A unique way to raise money: have an agency's chief executive join a corporate board. But f it is the Enron corporation Enron Corporation, U.S. company that in 2001 became the largest bankruptcy and stock collapse in U.S. history up to that time. The company was formed in 1985 when InterNorth purchased Houston Natural Gas to create the country's longest natural-gas pipeline network. , it could lead to problems.

One Enron director headed a cancer institute which received more than $1 million in Enron donations, according to according to
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 an article in the New York Times. Along with other members of the board, agency head faces possible financial and legal sanctions.

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 points out that some directors received consulting fees and lavish material inducements.
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Title Annotation:director of a cancer institute also on Enron's board; legal sanctions possible
Publication:Community Action
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Date:Mar 18, 2002
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