Reply #17: In a city full of rich, nasty, sorry, mean bastards [View All]

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Oscar Wyatt sits proudly at the top. My brother worked for this guy in the '70s, and I don't think he's gotten over it yet.

Wyatt was chummy with Saddam before it was fashionable. He beat the Bushes and Rummy to that table by years. He's also shrewd as hell; he was one of the very first who noticed that Enron was employing questionable accounting prctices. He said of the company as far back as 1996 that "it looks fine going up, but it'll crumble like a house of cards when it falls..."

Oscar won't be able to buy his way out of this mess. They've got tape recordings with him discussing the details of the kickbacks -- who gets paid, how much and how. They've got faxes of the transactions.

Eighty-one years old, and if he lives long enough he's going to prison for awhile.

Houston's charities will be the biggest losers; they will suffer because http://216.109.125.130/search/cache?p=oscar+wyatt&sm=Yahoo%21+Search&toggle=1&ei=UTF-8&xargs=0&pstart=1&b=111&u=www.texasmonthly.com/mag/1999/dec/socialite.php&w=oscar+wyatt&d=Hk1FM2FULmE9&icp=1&.intl=us">his wife is the biggest ball-thrower -- make that fundraiser -- in Houston.