Maureen Castaneda

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Maureen Castaneda was the director of Foreign Exchange and Sovereign Risk Management for Enron Corporation.[1][2]

Enron story[edit]

Maureen Castaneda was laid off from Enron and took a box of shredded paper home to use as packing material.[1] She then realized that the papers meant that Enron employees were illegally destroying evidence.[1][2] She stated the shredding started in 2001 around Thanksgiving.[3] The shredded papers were marked with Chewco and Jedi, two questionable partners of Enron. The New York Times, along with other news outlets, depicted her claim as a "woman scandal".[4][5]

Castenada said the documents were shredded in the accounting office starting sometime in October until January when she left the company. On January 22, 2002 she stated that Enron had been shredding documents in its Houston headquarters the previous week. Following her claim, the FBI raided the Houston office of Enron the next day to investigate the allegations.[6][7]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Martin T. Biegelman; Joel T. Bartow (10 April 2012). Executive Roadmap to Fraud Prevention and Internal Control: Creating a Culture of Compliance. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 288–. ISBN 978-1-118-00458-6.
  2. ^ a b Diane Smallen-Grob (2003). Making it in Corporate America: How Women Can Survive, Prosper, and Make a Difference. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 95–. ISBN 978-0-275-98110-5. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  3. ^ Dillon, Patrick, 1945- (2010). Circle of greed : the spectacular rise and fall of the lawyer who brought corporate America to its knees. Cannon, Carl M. New York: Broadway Books. ISBN 9780307589170. OCLC 643338834.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Abramson, Jill (2002-01-27). "The Nation; I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar in the Enron Scandal". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
  5. ^ "The women who blew the whistle on Enron". The Age. 2002-02-24. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
  6. ^ English, Simon (2002-01-23). "Enron offices raided by FBI squad". Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
  7. ^ "FBI searches Enron head office". 2002-01-23. Retrieved 2019-05-07.

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