World News Tonight (ABC) - 2002-01-25

Name: World News Tonight (ABC) - 2002-01-25
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[0:00] and Cornelius.

[0:02] >> K2 News, the station [music] more and

[0:04] more people are watching.

[0:11] >> On World News Tonight, a former Enron

[0:13] executive at the heart of the

[0:15] investigation is found dead with a gun

[0:18] and a suicide note. Why did the Wall

[0:21] Street analysts keep [music] telling

[0:22] investors to buy the sinking stock as

[0:25] Enron collapsed? An ABC News

[0:28] investigation. ABC News conducts DNA

[0:30] tests which crack unsolved rape cases.

[0:33] But why didn't the police do the tests

[0:35] in the [music] first place? We'll take a

[0:37] closer look at doctors who provide very

[0:39] important patients with every service at

[0:42] every hour at quite a price.

[0:44] >> But what they've done is they've changed

[0:46] health care into wealthare. And one of

[0:49] music's superstars gets paid $28 million

[0:53] not to sing.

[0:56] [music] From

[0:59] ABC News World Headquarters in New York,

[1:02] this is World News Tonight with Peter

[1:04] Jennings. Sitting in tonight, Charles

[1:07] Gibson.

[1:08] >> Good evening. One of Enron's former top

[1:11] executives apparently killed himself

[1:13] early this morning. 43-year-old Jay

[1:15] Clifford Baxter had been vice chairman

[1:17] of the company. He resigned shortly

[1:19] before Enron imploded in the country's

[1:21] biggest ever bankruptcy. Internal Enron

[1:24] memos indicate Baxter had been concerned

[1:26] about the company's conduct, but he

[1:28] profited mightily from the sale of Enron

[1:30] stock, and there are indications he may

[1:32] have worried the investigation could

[1:34] turn to him. ABC's Mike Von is outside

[1:37] Enron's headquarters tonight in Houston.

[1:39] Mike? Yes, Charlie. Cliff Baxter left a

[1:42] suicide note and ABC News has been told

[1:44] t