Alle AA alumne modtog i marts 2007 en hilsen fra Jesper Jarlbæk med et opsigtsvækkende presseklip. Det synes at bevise at beslutningen om at lynche AA blev truffet i det Hvide Hus.
Teksten fra Jesper Jarlbæk’s brev til AA alumni afsendt 9 marts 2007
For godt to år siden var vi så heldige at kunne arrangere, at Mary Morison holdt foredrag på CBS i København under titlen ” The Lynching of Arthur Andersen”.
Men kunne sådanne mistanker underbygges , eller var det blot en udokumenteret konspirations teori ?
“I remember it was in the Cabinet Room and you could see the pressure he was under because the Democrats were pressing his relationship with ‘Kenny boy'” — a reference to Kenneth Lay, the chief executive of Enron, who had sought help from the administration to avoid a bankruptcy filing in the weeks before the giant energy trading company collapsed.
“The president basically said, ‘Get this wrapped up,'” Oxley said. The House and Senate quickly agreed on a new draft, and Bush signed the bill into law on July 30.
A month later, Arthur Andersen, the accounting firm that had been convicted of obstructing the government’s investigation into the collapse of Enron, declared bankruptcy after 89 years in business, crushed by Enron-related liabilities.
The Andersen prosecution was “a White House decision,” Oxley said. “They had to really look tough and so they decided at the highest levels they were just going to give the death penalty to Arthur Andersen.”
“I think at the end of the day virtually anyone would agree it was a terrible decision, because you eliminated a major accounting firm,” he added, “and you just sent a chill through the accounting industry.”
Hele artiklen kan ses her: http://www.iht.com/articles /2007/03/02/business/wbspot03 .php.
Hvorfor så udsende denne mail ?
– for det første fordi alle de 90.000 ansatte, der mistede deres jobs i 2002 ,har krav på at kende sandheden.
– for det andet, fordi der har været skrevet så mange usandheder om Enron kollapset og Arthur Andersens rolle heri, at usandhederne er blevet til “sandhed.” Med den klare afgørelse fra US Supreme Court i 2005, og med en Bush politikers indrømmelser er der nu basis for, at den sande historie langt om længe kommer frem.
For at sikre at Arthur Andersen’s eftermæle endelig renses, er det nødvendigt at ovenstående information bliver udbredt. Jeg vil derfor meget gerne bede hver modtager af denne mail om at gøre følgende:
Afslutningsvis kan jeg informere om, at der er mange AA-alumni i USA, som nu overvejer, om man kan sagsøge den amerikanske regering for erstatning for de mange tab, der er lidt. Uanset om et sådant forehavende lykkes eller ej, så kan alle AA almuni’er nu stå frem under mottoet
Jeg håber, I vil bidrage til, at dette budskab bliver viderebragt. For alle AA alumni’ernes skyld
Jesper Jarlbæk jesper@jarlbaek.net