World News Tonight (ABC) - 2002-01-13

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[0:00] It's on K2 News at 5 and 6:30.

[0:04] >> Recording star Chris Isaac.

[0:06] >> Monday on AM Northwest

[0:11] >> on World News Tonight this Sunday.

[0:14] [music] The Enron scandal grows.

[0:17] Accounting firm lawyers reportedly

[0:19] ordered the destruction of key documents

[0:22] three months ago. Are the airlines

[0:25] prepared to meet government airport

[0:27] security deadlines?

[0:29] Prince Harry's punishment for

[0:31] experimenting with drugs and alcohol

[0:34] and the last mile for an American

[0:37] classic.

[0:40] >> From [music] ABC News World Headquarters

[0:43] in New York, this is World News Tonight

[0:47] Sunday.

[0:48] >> Good evening everyone. I'm Carol

[0:49] Simpson. The latest twist in the Enron

[0:52] investigation centers on a memo.

[0:55] Congressional investigators have told

[0:57] Time magazine that lawyers for the giant

[1:00] accounting firm Arthur Anderson in a

[1:03] memo ordered employees to destroy

[1:05] documents. ABC's Linda Douglas has the

[1:08] report.

[1:10] For Enron's accountant, Arthur Anderson,

[1:13] a bad situation got worse today. Last

[1:16] week, Anderson disclosed that some of

[1:17] its employees had destroyed Enron

[1:20] documents. Tonight, Time magazine

[1:22] reports that four days before Enron

[1:24] announced it had lost $618 million, an

[1:28] Arthur Anderson lawyer sent out a memo

[1:30] that directed workers to destroy all

[1:33] audit material except for basic workp

[1:35] papers. The chairman of the Senate

[1:37] Government Affairs Committee, which is

[1:38] investigating Enron's collapse, says

[1:41] Anderson may now be facing criminal

[1:42] charges.

[1:43] >> This kind of memo to destroy documents

[1:45] raises very serious questions about

[1:47] whether obstruction of justice occurred

[1:49] here. Tonight, in a