Salon:
February 1st, 2002
Salon:
“They had rock-star status here,” says Carlos Hernandez, a native
Houstonian and business consultant of the Enron top dogs. Last year,
before Enron’s downfall, when Jeff Skilling was still CEO, he’d be
approached in local bars like a celebrity. “Out of nowhere people
would come up to him and tell him how great he was. A friend of mine
saw him at Volcano unshaven, wearing a leather bomber jacket, a white
T-shirt and jeans,” says Hernandez. “He was a god, and Lay was king.”
Wow, the Volcano. That is one crappy bar. (Good tea,
though.)