World News Tonight (ABC) - 2002-01-21
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[0:00] day.
[0:02] >> Help your kids sleep soundly.
[0:04] >> Tomorrow on AM Northwest.
[0:11] >> On World News Tonight, ABC News has
[0:13] learned that the Enron energy company
[0:15] was shredding documents after the
[0:17] investigation began.
[0:20] Tragedy after tragedy in a desperate
[0:22] city, risking your life to get across
[0:24] town.
[0:26] The mineral fever, not gold but coal,
[0:28] then ABC's Ted Koppel tonight in the
[0:30] heart of darkness.
[0:32] The mother accused of drowning her five
[0:34] children, did the minister see it
[0:36] coming?
[0:37] And the Martin Luther King speech that
[0:39] the public has not heard in 44 years.
[0:46] >> From ABC News world headquarters in New
[0:49] York,
[0:50] this is World News Tonight with Peter
[0:53] Jennings.
[0:53] >> Good evening, everyone. We begin tonight
[0:55] with the first evidence that the giant
[0:57] energy company Enron was shredding
[0:59] documents more than two months after the
[1:01] federal government said that it was
[1:03] investigating the company's business
[1:04] practices.
[1:06] When Enron collapsed, as you know, it
[1:08] stripped thousands of workers of their
[1:09] life savings. ABC News has been told by
[1:12] a former executive at the company that
[1:14] the documents were being destroyed.
[1:17] ABC's Brian Ross is here with us
[1:19] tonight. Brian, this is an exclusive
[1:20] report and it will come as a big blow
[1:23] publicly to Enron.
[1:24] >> Certainly will, Peter. The former
[1:25] executive says the document shredding
[1:27] continued up until at least last week,
[1:29] despite federal subpoenas and court
[1:31] orders since late October, which would
[1:33] have absolutely forbidden it.
[1:36] The former executive tells ABC News the
[1:39] shredding was being done in an
[1:40] accounting office