{"id":59,"date":"2002-02-01T15:04:24","date_gmt":"2002-02-01T22:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/02\/the-saga-of-daniel-scotto-\/"},"modified":"2002-02-01T15:04:24","modified_gmt":"2002-02-01T22:04:24","slug":"the-saga-of-daniel-scotto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/01\/the-saga-of-daniel-scotto\/","title":{"rendered":"The Saga of Daniel Scotto &#8212;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tHere&#8217;s another link on Daniel Scotto, the analyst fired by Paribas for accurately predicting Enron&#8217;s collapse <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pioneerplanet.com\/business\/biz_docs\/238724.htm\">Conflict for Dain analyst? (1\/30\/2002)<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And Daniel Scotto, a bond analyst for BNP Paribas, told the Wall Street Journal that he was forced out because he told clients in August that Enron securities &#8220;should be sold at all costs and be sold now.&#8221; The company said Scotto&#8217;s departure was unrelated to his research.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now contrast Scotto with Mark Easterbrook of Dain:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He not only termed Enron a buying opportunity on Oct. 23 &#8212; a day after the SEC request became public knowledge &#8212; he also was among the last analysts to downgrade Enron&#8217;s stock, issuing an &#8220;underperform&#8221; on Nov. 29 with the stock trading at 61 cents. <\/p>\n<p>\nThe possibility that Easterbrook may have been less than objective in his assessment of Enron&#8217;s stock is easy to understand. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dain, of course, was one of Enron&#8217;s underwriters. It&#8217;s becoming increasingly clear that the scandal at Enron isn&#8217;t so much about politics or accounting as it is about conflicts of interest on the part of brokerage houses.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another link on Daniel Scotto, the analyst fired by Paribas for accurately predicting Enron&#8217;s collapse Conflict for Dain analyst? (1\/30\/2002) And Daniel Scotto, a bond analyst for BNP Paribas, told the Wall Street Journal that he was forced out because he told clients in August that Enron securities &#8220;should be sold at all costs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/01\/the-saga-of-daniel-scotto\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Saga of Daniel Scotto &#8212;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}