VELD LLC - A New Energy Trading Company With Jeff Skilling

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In 2020, Jeff Skilling founded a new energy trading company based in Texas called VELD LLC rumored to be working on the venture with Lu Pie. The website was up and now it's down and no one's returned any press requests for comments on it. So maybe it actually didn't end up happening. Who knows? Well, Lu still got some money because he did settle with the government for I think $31 million. He still had plenty of other cash to live on though.

The FTX fraud has dominated headlines now for weeks, during which we’ve debated if and how Acquired could uniquely add to the conversation. Then we realized there was an angle so perfect that we had to drop everything and enter Acquired research overdrive: Enron. Travel back with us to the granddaddy fraud of them all, 2001’s then-largest bankruptcy in US history and the impetus for the famous Sarbanes-Oxley Act. So much of Enron’s history parallels FTX that the uncanniness is almost unbelievable — right down to the same CEO running the two bankruptcies. Sit back and enjoy this crazy tale of villainy, greed, and the nature of humans and money. Maybe just don’t take notes on this one…

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