Enron tapes show 'gloating' traders

Enron traders openly discussed manipulating California’s power market during obscenity-laced telephone conversations in which they gloated about ripping off “those poor grandmothers” during the US energy crunch in 2000-01, according to transcripts of the calls.

The calls were obtained from the US government and transcribed by a public utility district near Seattle that wants the collapsed power giant to forfeit millions of dollars in ill-gotten gains over the energy trading scandal.