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CLASS PERIOD EVENTS AND FALSE STATEMENTS
121. On 10/19/98 (the beginning of the Federal Class Period), the statements pleaded in
109-120 were alive, impacting and inflating the market price of Enron's publicly traded securities.
Each of the statements made between 7/14/98-10/14/98 were false or misleading when issued. The
true but concealed facts were:
(a) Enron's financial statements and results issued during this period were false
and misleading as they inflated Enron's revenues and earnings to conceal billions of dollars of debt
that should have been shown on Enron's balance sheet, as described in 418-611.
(b) Contrary to the representations that Enron's transactions with its related parties
were fair to Enron and on terms representative of those that could be obtained in arm's-length
transactions with independent third parties, in fact, the transactions with Enron's related parties were
grossly unfair to Enron and set up in a manner to permit Enron to pay off key Enron insiders,
including Fastow, for their participation in the scheme, which included arranging the illicit and
illegal financial transactions with those related parties on terms that no independent third party would
ever have agreed to, as detailed herein.
(c) Enron's financial condition, including its liquidity and credit standing, was not
nearly as strong as represented, as Enron was concealing billions of dollars of debt that should have
been reported on its balance sheet – and which would have very negatively affected its credit rating,
financial condition and liquidity – by improperly transferring that debt to the balance sheets of
various non-qualifying SPEs and partnerships it secretly controlled, as detailed herein.
(d) Enron generated hundreds of millions of dollars of profits and transferred
billions of dollars of debt off its balance sheet by entering into non-arm's-length transactions with
SPEs and partnerships Enron controlled, including Chewco/JEDI, for which Enron had guaranteed
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