Louise,

This social e-mail is from Rich Montenes who runs the entire gas control room for Keyspan.   We worked together diligently on the first year of the Brooklyn transaction and I focused on his organization as critical to daily flexibility for Enron.  We have kept in touch over the last 4 years.  As we discussed today, the MPSC (Michigan Public Service Commission) wanted to "verify" with Brooklyn our record.

As he stated from below:
I will give Enron a stunning recommendation to your potential future customer - rest assured! It's an easy thing for me because I'm very sincere about it. Our working relationship with Coral is non- existent. Nothing like Enron from my point of view.

I believe Aquila may be our competition on this deal with Coral being in the outside lane.  Kevin Fox, head of trading at Aquila, is an ex-employee of Chuck and has been spending a significant amount of time with him.  

Just an FYI... 

Laura

And the term we were both trying to remember is "stalking-horse".

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	"Richard T. Montenes" <rmontenes@keyspanenergy.com>@ENRON [mailto:IMCEANOTES-+22Richard+20T+2E+20Montenes+22+20+3Crmontenes+40keyspanenergy+2Ecom+3E+40ENRON@ENRON.com] 
Sent:	Monday, September 10, 2001 2:47 PM
To:	Luce, Laura
Subject:	Re: How the Heck are you...

Laura,

  Always good to hear from you. I've asked Bobby several times how you are so I know you're well. Hope being back in Houston agrees with you. As far as a chance of seeing you on Thursday/ Friday - I'll be in Hershey PA. with our friends at Duke (Customer/Golf Meeting). If you find yourself up and about NY some other time please let me know if you have some spare time. I would love to see you.
My oldest daughter won the Hamilton Fellowship at Columbia University Law School. She started in August. That's great but I find she doesn't have much time for her old man as she's apparently knee deep in work. Sound familiar?  The good news is it's not costing me anything and I can put up with it to save $100,000.00 +.

Great news about Di - she certainly deserves to be recognized for her talents. She was lucky to have you as a mentor!

I will give Enron a stunning recommendation to your potential future customer - rest assured! It's an easy thing for me because I'm very sincere about it. Our working relationship with Coral is non- existent. Nothing like Enron from my point of view.

Yes - we still have roasted pepper pizza's nearby!

Stay well and give those 4 going on 10 babies a kiss for me.

Rich M

"Luce, Laura" wrote:

> Richie,
>
> I was pleasantly surprised to see your name cross my desk today.  One of
> the deals my group is working on contacted you (I believe) for a
> reference.  Timing is interesting, I will be in New York this
> Thursday/Friday visiting with Chuck on the business we set up in Chicago
> Forget that for now...  How are you?
>
> So how is your daughter in college @ Michigan?  How is Rich?  Bobby said
> there may be some changes with Gas Control between Brooklyn and Long
> Island.
>
> I just moved back to Houston (10 days and counting) from Chicago.  The
> boys are now 4 going on 10 and just entered school for the first time.
> They are growing so fast and I don't like it one bit.  They take care of
> me as much as I do the reverse.  Remember Di... she just moved to
> California to UCLA to get her MBA.  After her stint in Beijing and
> Portland, Oregon she worked for me again and I really encouraged her to
> go to school.  Before she left, we went out and reminisced on our time
> in New York.  For both of us, that was one of our best personal
> experiences meeting new people, doing something different and you guys
> were so great to us.
>
> Chicago was great for me in the same light.  I have been lucky to get to
> follow through in Chicago with a great group of people.  The office in
> Chicago is being run by two of the guys who moved up with me and we have
> all been working together for the last 3 years.  They are my family and
> I have been missing them terribly.
>
> Hope to hear from you soon.  I could really go for some roasted pepper
> pizza...
>
> Laura Luce
>
> .
>
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