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Enron Defendants had permitted Enron's business model to evolve to where the actual ongoing
success of the finances of the business depended upon keeping Enron's stock price trading above
several equity issuance trigger levels which placed further pressures on them to do whatever was
necessary to keep Enron's stock trading at high levels.
397. The Enron Defendants who were on Enron's Management Committee were the top
executives of Enron. They had daily contact with each other while running Enron as "hands-on"
managers, dealing with the important issues facing Enron's business, i.e., WEOS, EES, EBS, its
JEDI and LJM partnerships and the related SPEs and Enron's future revenues and profits. The Enron
Defendants controlled and/or possessed the power and authority to control the contents of Enron's
Registration Statements, its Form 10-K SEC filings and its quarterly and annual reports and press
releases, and were provided with copies of the filings, reports and releases alleged herein to be
misleading prior to or shortly after their issuance and had the ability and opportunity to prevent their
issuance or cause them to be corrected.
398. The Enron directors who were on Enron's Executive, Finance and Audit Committees
were much more involved in Enron's day-to-day operations than is normally the case with "outside
directors." These directors were also in frequent contact with Lay, Skilling, Fastow, Buy and Causey
to receive information from them about Enron's business and they received copies of Enron's internal
operating and budget reports circulated to Enron's top executives. The Enron securities offerings
during the Class Period could not have taken place without the authorization of Enron's Board.
399. Because of the Enron Defendants' positions with the Company, they each had access
to the adverse non-public information about its business, partnerships and investments, finances,
products, markets and present and future business prospects via access to internal corporate
documents (including the Company's operating plans, budgets and forecasts and reports of actual
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