RE: Re: RE: RE: RE: RE: Krugman Komes Around

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Is someone suing Krugman for writing a puff-piece about Enron?

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine


> That'll be $8million please.....
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> Enron Bankruptcy Lawyers' Bill: $8 Million
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> By Carrie Johnson
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Friday, February 22, 2002; Page E04
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> In every scandal, there are winners and losers. The lawyers usually
> are among the winners.
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> Consider U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York, where Enron Corp.'s law
> firms filed more than $8 million worth of bills for their first month
> on the job.
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> Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Enron's lead lawyers in the bankruptcy
> reorganization, asked for $5.4 million for their services in December.
> The figure includes $3 million in lawyers' time -- including $700 an
> hour for senior partner Ira Millstein and $685 an hour for partners
> Greg Danilow and Martin Bienenstock -- $169,883 for copying and
> $89,799 for computer research, according to court documents the law
> firm filed filed Wednesday.
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> Andrews & Kurth, another firm representing the debtors, requested
> $1.54 million in fees and $78,838 in expenses. Cadwalader, Wickersham
> & Taft of New York asked for $237,734. LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae
> racked up $650,000 in lawyer and paralegal time and $56,000 in
> expenses. And Togut, Segal & Segal sought $208,829 in fees and another
> $36,241 in expenses.
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> The lawyers weren't the only ones lining up this week. Ernst & Young
> Corporate Finance LLC charged $586,609 for providing restructuring
> advice from December to late January.
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> No word yet on when Judge Arthur J. Gonzalez will review the bills.
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