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Enron: The Scandal of Exploiting the Scandal
One of the signs of a thoroughly reported scoop is that nobody attempts to follow, because there's nothing left to say. It would be tough to find a cleaner shot than the one Greg Farrell fired in Friday's USAT at Lynn Brewer's integrity circus. And the subsequence silence confirms there's not much story left to try to forward.
Farrell's piece -- "The Enron whistle-blower who wasn't" -- will undoubtedly slow down Brewer's "Integrity Institute," as well as lower her future speaking fees. Brewer, formerly known as EddieLynn Morgan, likes to lump herself in with Enron's star baddies.
It's a theme she repeated in an interview with USA TODAY. "I'm no different from Ken Lay or Jeff Skilling in that we all became complacent because of stock options," she says. (In the late 1990s, stock options were available to employees on a companywide basis, not just to executives.) "I am Enron. The horrible side of me came out. I got to see I wasn't the best person inside the company."
Jack Flack assumes Brewer is now hard at work writing a book about how she recovered from her lack of integrity in exploiting the lack of integrity.
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