re: FBI employees are reportedly destroying evidence

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Fischer was part of the mob that assaulted the Capitol on January 6, 2021. He, like hundreds of other January 6th defendants, has been charged with, among other things, violating the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a law that Congress passed, as Justice Elena Kagan put it on Tuesday, when “it had just gone through Enron” and had wanted to be sure that people like the Arthur Andersen accountants could be punished.

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Arthur Andersen executives had learned that their client Enron was likely being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission for what would prove to be egregious fraud. Subpoenas might arrive any day. They also knew, to varying degrees, that their own work on Enron’s books would not hold up to scrutiny. Soon, “files awaiting destruction spilled out into the hallways,” McLean and Elkind write. The pretense was that the paper obliteration was just a reflection of the accounting firm’s “document-retention policy,” and yet, in the space of about two weeks, the Houston office shredded more than it would in a year. At one point, Arthur Andersen, with its own machines at capacity, hired a mobile shredding truck from a company called Shred-It. Even the firm’s London office got in on the shredding.

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