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Debt Help WASHINGTON -- The firm that audited the books of collapsed Enron Corp., Arthur Andersen LLP, disclosed Thursday that its employees had destroyed a ''significant'' number of documents related to Enron. Andersen said it didn't know whether its directive to preserve documents demanded by government investigators was violated.

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Debt Free Ken Johnson, a spokesman for Tauzin, said Andersen officials told committee investigators Thursday that thousands of documents had been destroyed.

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Advice Debt Later in the day, Andersen released another statement saying documents were discarded in the months before the SEC issued a subpoena to the accounting firm as part of its investigation, which began in October. Andersen said in response to the subpoena, it issued a directive to employees to preserve documents but said that it has not been able to determine whether that instruction was violated.

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Debt Reduce The White House disclosed that Enron Chairman Kenneth L. Lay reached out to two of President Bush's Cabinet officers when the energy company was collapsing. Attorney General John Ashcroft, who received campaign contributions from Enron executives during his failed 2000 senatorial bid, said he will recuse himself from the criminal investigation of Enron being conducted by the Justice Department.

Get Out Of Debt Andersen said that in recent months, people in the firm involved with the Enron auditing ''disposed of a significant but undetermined number of electronic and paper documents and correspondence.''

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