] Washington -- Enron Corp.'s 200 highest-paid executives
] received total compensation of $1.4 billion in 2000, more
] than triple the amount the year before, and more than the
] company's $979 million in reported corporate profit,
] according to a three-volume report the congressional
] While its compensation strategy was erasing tax bills in
] the late 1990s, Enron was turning its tax department into
] a profit center, the report found.

Enron's top 200 execs paid themselves $1.4 billion in 2000 / Panel hears how Texas firm arranged to avoid almost all federal taxes