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Connecticut Governor Shifts Story an Enron Phone Call.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 2004

The Hartford Courant, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 19--In a secret statement to state investigators, Gov. John G. Rowland testified that he probably talked on the phone with former Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay in the fall of 2001, a private admission that goes beyond his public statements that he "may" have participated in "conference calls" with Lay.

Rowland made his statement under oath as he gave a four-hour deposition in January to lawyers from the chief state's attorney's office, which is conducting a grand jury investigation of the state trash authority's loss of $220 million in a disastrous energy deal with Enron.

The Enron admission included in Rowland's testimony was confirmed by several sources and supported...

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