Film Summary: The Fall Of Enron

Enron began as a small company that went global due to their energy trades. Enron didn’t start off bad at first and didn’t think they would become the biggest scandal of the money market nation. Enron was a growing company, over time it began to fall. It was a risky business due to poor money handling and decision making. Enron executives got greedy, the more the company was falling, they found anyway to line their pockets versus help the company. They used temporary accounting practice that led the company to its fall. Not one person involved in the scandal, would step up for what had went wrong. It took one person to question what was going wrong within the company. Therefore, she was taken off the account and in a sense demoted. Therefore, no one else would go forward with the knowledge of wrong doings happening within the company. Employees were afraid to lose their job or standing. Enron was a company that was growing from the bottom up. Enron was almost universally one of the countries’ innovative companies (The Fall of Enron 1). Enron than came crashing down when the executives finally showed that they were showing more income then they actually had. It all came out when they filed bankruptcy, they …show more content…
The character George Neeleman, was the CFO of a Wall Street bank. The bank firm he was working for was operating a Ponzi scheme. He was the “fall guy” in the movie. His family was being threatened and he was put into witness protection, with character Madea. He was helping the DA, to find what exactly happened. Eventually he found out where the accounts that were taken from charities were being kept. Without the help of the system, he found a way to get the money back to the charities. Therefore, this character was the fall guy for a corporation, but he wanted to do what was right and give the money