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Enron Corp. - University of California | Office of The President

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JP Morgan and Lehman Brothers had a clear financial interest in consummating the <strong>of</strong>ferings, as they<br />

received approximately $4 million in underwriting fees for each and stood to obtain millions <strong>of</strong><br />

dollars for completing the <strong>of</strong>ferings and/or stood to benefit from the resulting capital infusion to<br />

<strong>Enron</strong>, as JP Morgan and Lehman Brothers collectively had billions <strong>of</strong> dollars <strong>of</strong> outstanding loan<br />

exposure to <strong>Enron</strong>.<br />

<strong>of</strong> the Notes:<br />

1016.19 <strong>The</strong> defendants named herein did the following acts in furtherance <strong>of</strong> the sale<br />

(a) <strong>The</strong>y actively and jointly drafted, revised and approved the Selling Documents<br />

by which the sale <strong>of</strong> the 6.40% Notes and 6.95% Notes was made to the investing public. <strong>The</strong><br />

Registration Statement and Prospectus were "selling documents," calculated by these defendants to<br />

create interest in the 6.40% Notes and 6.95% Notes, were filed with the SEC and were widely<br />

distributed by defendants for that purpose.<br />

(b) <strong>The</strong> defendants named herein finalized the Selling Documents, caused them<br />

to become effective and caused them to be provided to the Washington Board and the Note Subclass.<br />

But for the defendants having drafted, filed, and/or signed the Selling Documents, the <strong>of</strong>fering <strong>of</strong> the<br />

6.40% Notes and 6.95% Notes could not have been made.<br />

1016.20 <strong>The</strong> Washington Board and the members <strong>of</strong> the Note Subclass have been<br />

damaged in that they paid artificially inflated prices for the 6.40% Notes and 6.95% Notes. <strong>The</strong><br />

Washington Board and the Note Subclass would not have purchased the 6.40% Notes or the 6.95%<br />

Notes at the prices they paid, or at all, if they had been aware that the prices had been artificially<br />

inflated by defendants' misleading statements.<br />

1016.21 Each <strong>of</strong> the defendants named herein issued, caused to be issued and/or<br />

participated in the issuance <strong>of</strong> materially false and misleading statements and/or misrepresented or<br />

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