Enron Goes Hip-Hop with Ex-Employee's Rap Record

HOUSTON -- A former Enron pipeline engineer going by the name NRun is releasing a rap album, "Corporate America," that chastises his former bosses by name, Reuters reported Monday.

NRun, whose real name is David Tonsall, lost his job after Enron's collapse into a record bankruptcy in 2001. Tonsall said he is angry that the Enron criminal investigation is taking years and has yet to name anyone higher up the corporate ladder than former Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow.

Tonsall decided to vent his frustration through the rap album, which has so far cost him $15,000 to make. The record is due out on Dec. 3, the two-year anniversary of the massive layoffs that followed Enron's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.

"I know you can't go postal. That ends up putting you in jail," said Tonsall, who now runs his own engineering firm, Synergistic Techneering.

NRun turns up the heat on Skilling in another song: "Skilling, going to find you rain, sleet, or snow. When justice comes around, you're going to get hit."

-- NYSSCPA.org News Staff

Posted on 10/27/03

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