Analysis: Houston has a problem: the countdown starts at Enron As the accounting scandal builds to its court climax, Katherine Griffiths reports from the Texan city on the rise and fall of the energy trader, the wrongfooting of Wall Street and the financial fallout in the local community From: The Independent on Sunday | Date: September 4, 2005| Author: Katherine Griffiths | Copyright 2005 The Independent on Sunday. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Taking a drive through River Oaks, a prosperous area of Houston, Texas, is like looking into the past of America's fourth-largest city.

The ornate mansions " some of which span an entire block " were first built by the oilmen who struck black gold here. In the 1960s, astronauts moved in as Nasa's Johnson Space Center grew up. And in the 1990s, the people who created Enron, the energy trader that became Houston's most famous local company, took up home in the city's most exclusive post...

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