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01/21/2002 - Updated 10:47 PM ET

The Enron scandal by the numbers

  • Enron's stock price at its January 2001 peak: $83
  • Enron's stock price at last NYSE close: 67 cents
  • Shares outstanding: 754.3 million
  • Total shareholder value lost: $63,101,519,000
  • Number of employees: 20,600
  • Percent of employee 401(k) assets in Enron stock: 62% in January 2001
  • Enron's rank in size before the drop: 7th largest
  • Enron's reported net income in 2000: $979 million
  • Federal income taxes paid in 2000: $0
  • Profit Enron restated over four years: nearly $600 million
  • Number of outside partnerships it had: more than 3,000
  • Partnerships based offshore: about 900
  • Members of the board of directors: 15
  • Directors on the board's audit committee: 6
  • Average 2001 compensation in stock and cash per director: nearly $400,000
  • Company created: 1985
  • Date of Chapter 11 filing: Dec. 2, 2001
  • Number of Aspen, Colo., resort properties that CEO Kenneth Lay put up for sale just days before the bankruptcy filing: 3
  • Reported date of warning letter Sherron Watkins sent to Lay: Aug. 15, 2001
  • Total shares sold by corporate insiders last year: 9,447,659, valued at $130,972,228
  • Total shares bought by corporate insiders last year: 10,000, valued at $369,800
  • Total debt listed on the books based on its bankruptcy filing: $13.12 billion
  • Contributions by Enron employees and its political action committee to the Bush presidential campaign: $113,800
  • Contributions by Arthur Andersen employees and its PAC to the Bush campaign: $145,650
  • Contributions by Enron's attorneys, Houston-based Vinson & Elkins or PAC, to the Bush campaign: $202,850
  • Congressional committees holding inquiries: at least 9
  • Federal agencies investigating: at least 3
  • Year Arthur Andersen began auditing Enron: 1985
  • Securities and Exchange Commission-registered companies Andersen has as clients: 2,407
  • Andersen partners/employees worldwide: about 4,700/84,000
  • Andersen's rank among accounting firms: 5
  • Countries it operates in: 85
  • Earliest date reported that Enron concerns were raised at Andersen: Feb. 6, 2001

Sources: USA TODAY research; Center for Responsive Politics; Thomson Financial