The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron (2003) on Netflix
Brian Cruver, 26 and ambitious, lands a sales job at Enron in Houston. The company's get-rich-quick mantra, spending sprees and lavish corporate gatherings shape his new working life.
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Plot summary
Brian Cruver is 26 and ambitious when he lands a job as a salesman at the Houston-based Enron Corporation. The workplace runs on a get-rich-quick mantra. The company culture shows itself in costly office parties, large expense accounts and women hired as secretaries. Ken Lay is chairman and Jeff Skilling is chief executive. Mr. Blue is a senior executive whose name was changed. Cruver is brilliant but inexperienced as he takes on the company's habits.
Cast
- Jon Ted Wynneas Jeff Skilling
- Tom Keenanas Allen Flemming
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron (2003)
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- The Crooked E dramatizes the fall of Enron, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on December 2, 2001, in what was at the time the largest bankruptcy in American history. Once the seventh-largest U.S. corporation by revenue, Enron hid billions in debt through special purpose entities and mark-to-market accounting.
- Enron's auditor, Arthur Andersen LLP, was convicted of obstruction of justice for shredding documents related to the investigation, and the conviction led to the firm's dissolution.
- The Enron scandal led directly to the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, transforming American corporate governance and securities regulation.
- The Enron bankruptcy estate brought thousands of avoidance and clawback claims against financial institutions, trading counterparties and former executives, recovering more than $7.2 billion for creditors.
