Talk:Lynn Brewer

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This is a very interesting story, but there are certainly elements of tragedy here as well. I think everybody who edits this page should be familiar with WP:BLP and WP:COI. Let's make sure everything is referenced. If you have difficulties in formatting the references, please just plunk down the information (dates pages links etc.) and I'll see what I can do. Smallbones 12:07, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Iggy, please be cool and reference, see WP:BLP and WP:RS

I have every sympathy for edits recently made by Iggy R. They may very well be correct, but some of it is obviously opinion, and the rest is unsourced. There are some pretty strict rules about this (and for good reason). I'll place these edits below, but have to take them out of the article. If anybody can provide sources or documentation for some of this, we can put it back in. Smallbones 22:04, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Lynn Brewer aka EddieLynn Morgan was hired at Enron Capital & Trade as a team leader for a gas and power contract briefing project. She had two clerks reporting to her at that time, whose combined annual salary was less than 75K, and not the $1 million she claims in USA Today’s October 12, 2007 article “The Enron Whistle Blower Who Wasn’t” by Greg Farrell.

In spite of her claims of an extensive legal background, it was clear that she had not even a basic understanding of contracts. It was also apparent to work with her she had no knowledge of the simplest gas purchase and sales transactions. She worked in a 4 X 6 cubicle.

Shortly thereafter, her lack of experience and knowledge about contracts and the energy business led to her demotion to contract analyst, where for months she took several lengthy leaves of absence. She spent her work days desperately trying to procure a transfer to Portland, Oregon by submitting internet applications to numerous companies, and she was very skilled at composing lengthy recommendation letters for herself written in the third person and signed under assumed names. She would inject herself in national current events, even going so far as to claim that the students of Columbine were trying to contact her for help. She claimed to know Brad Pitt, which concerned some of her coworkers nearly to the point of telling the authorities. She had absolutely NO access to Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, Andrew Fastow, etc. .She spent the balance of her days gossiping and conducting personal business on the phone and disrupting the working contract administrators. At one point, she even tried a slip and fall scam at a local grocery chain to extort a settlement and when that failed, she claimed an on the job injury. She was an HR nightmare.

As is typical with giant corporations like Enron, Enron mid-management didn’t eliminate their problems; they transferred them, hence, her transfer to Enron’s Azurix as a contract administrator in mid 1999. Subsequently, she transferred back to Portland, OR. Not too long after that came the Enron collapse.

Up to this point in time, EddieLynn Morgan was basically a failure with few friends. She was ridiculed at work and had to live with the daily humiliation of knowing that her peers were skilled and tenured professionals in the energy industry and she was an underachieving, high school graduate. She made attempts to earn an internet degree, but that took too much work. She had a brief failed marriage and a family who didn’t want her around. Although she was in her thirties, she had the gait and appearance of a mature woman decades older. These things contributed to her extremely low self-esteem and her ego craved a different life.

The collapse of Enron presented the perfect opportunity for EddieLynn Morgan to become Lynn Brewer. Once she became Lynn Brewer, she could fabricate an existence and history for which she never had to work. And, since everyone knew her as EddieLynn Morgan, no one would ever expose her. After all, Enron had so many “executives”, one more fictional one wouldn’t matter.

So, EddieLynn Morgan invented Lynn Brewer and Lynn Brewer needed a resume. She became the fictional Enron Whistleblower. As a self-promoter, she sold the newly fictional persona for some hefty fees. With a few keystrokes of a keyboard, she became an ex-Enron executive, proficient in the energy business, with a textbook knowledge of the energy business, business ethics and integrity.

On October 12, 2007, USA Today’s Greg Farrell accurately exposed her as the fraud she is. EddieLynn Morgan aka Lynn Brewer is not a paragon of business practices and ethics. The truth is that she knows nothing of business practices. She has built a business based on lies and deception. She has tried to foster credibility by claiming to have played a part in the fall of Enron, then seeing the error of her ways, achieves redemption by writing books and speaking publicly. She is a woman full of self-importance who seized on the opportunity to assume a fictional identity and fraudulently insert herself in a high profile story in which she had absolutely no role. Ken Lay is dead, and cannot refute her claims to have had a relationship with him that was so intimate that he confided in her about matters of Enron’s business as well as his personal affairs. Other key players are either in jail, or have chosen to put Enron behind them.

EddieLynn Morgan aka Lynn Brewer’s actions are not those of someone sharing her strong ethics and integrity, but rather the desperate attempts of a self-loathing woman to create an identity more desirable and interesting than the one in her reality.

This story will end sadly for Ms. Brewer, in that the walls are closing in. Her tour of deception is ending. Don’t feel too sorry for EddieLynn Morgan, she’s an illusionist. There’s another life she covets, and that is her next resume; her next identity.

Same citation repeated

Note several references to same article by Greg Farrel in USA today. There should be a better way to write such that article is referrenced once.

76.22.121.156 (talk) 21:58, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

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