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 ON JULY 5, 1995, Enron Corporation donated $100,000 to the
 Democratic National Committee. Six days later, Enron executives
 were on a trade mission with Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor
 to Bosnia and Croatia. With Kantor's support, Enron signed a
 $100 million contract to build a 150-megawatt power plant.

 Enron, then a growing giant in energy trading, practically had
 a reserved seat on Clinton administration trade junkets.
 Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, who egregiously linked political
 donations to government assistance, accompanied Enron chairman
 Ken Lay on a mission to India. Enron president Joseph Sutton
 was on the trip to Bosnia during which Brown lost his life in a
 plane crash (Sutton was not on Brown's plane at the time).
 After Brown's death, Enron's Terence Thorn, a $1,000 donor to
 the Clinton-Gore campaign, traveled with Commerce Secretary
 William Daley to South Africa.  Ken Lay also traveled with
 Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary on her trade trips.

 There were other contacts between Enron and the Clinton
 administration. Ken Lay was a close friend of Mack McLarty,
 Clinton's first chief of staff. In his 1993 disclosure
 statement, Robert Rubin listed Enron as one of the firms with
 which he had had "significant contact" while at Goldman Sachs.
 Enron was represented by the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss,
 Hauer & Feld, the firm where Clinton advisers Robert Strauss
 and Vernon Jordan worked.

 And Enron benefited from its government contacts during the
 Clinton years. After Lay's trip to India with Ron Brown, Enron
 received nearly $400 million in U.S.  government assistance so
 that it could build a power plant south of Bombay...

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