riends and family, as well as consultants, lawyers, politicians and journalists. Thomas compares these handouts to John D. Rockefeller's handing out dimes to poor boys. The article lists Skilling's having installed a woman he was engaged to as secretary to the Enron board at an annual salary of $600,000.
There are three key players, including Chairman of the Board (since resigned) Kenneth Lay, Jeff Skilling and Andy Fastow. While Fastow's Houston rabbi considers him a "mensch" others call him "a little unscrupulous in a minor sort of way" (Thomas 25) It is incredulous that Fastow, who seemed to be the prime mover in creating partnerships and moving assets or liabilities from one enterprise to another, could not have been monitored more closely by his bosses, Lay and Skilling. Either they knew and assented, or they were so nanve and uninterested as to understand exactly what was going on. If Fastow was considered unscrupulous, Sklling was widely regarded as a bully and boor, even to making obscene finger gestures in the Enron garage if someone got in
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