Enron Scandal: Email Investigation Report and Analysis

This report details an investigation into the Enron scandal, focusing on the analysis of emails associated with Eric Saibi. The investigation utilized eDiscovery software to examine Saibi's communications, converting emails to a CSV format for analysis. The analysis revealed personal details, including shopping habits and relationship issues, alongside professional communications. The investigation uncovered a job offer that Saibi initially rejected but later seemed to accept, potentially indicating a change in his employment status and raising questions about the potential leakage of sensitive company information. The report also highlights emails where Saibi sent restricted company information and subsequently requested its deletion. Overall, the investigation suggests that while Saibi was an efficient employee, he was not loyal to the company.

PART 1
In the given scenario the investigation being carried out is for Enron scandal. Th
attorney Ms Jackson has asked me to investigate the matter by asking me to
investigate through Eric Saibi’s emails, which might have some useful information
related to the scandal. The resource that I used for this investigation is
“eric_saibi_000_1_1.pst” file. According to the information told to me Eric was a
trader for enron so this helped me find some keywords to lead me to the clues.
The software I used for this investigation is Aid4Mail eDiscovery Software, the
very first configuration was set to the eDiscovery option. I used this software to
convert the emails to CSV format, so that I can easily open it in Excel and
thoroughly read the emails to find important conclusions.
While I was reading those emails, I was focused on searching the information that
may be related to Enron scandal or personal information. Many of those emails
were of shopping from ebay, and I even found one mail where he was registered
as a permanent customer for ebay services. This shows that he was a shopaholic
type of person and spent most of his time shopping. This may probably an
indication that he may also used to spend some or most part of his working hours
shopping.

Further more my investigation found out that he was involved in some romantic
relationship also. As there is one draft that he did not sent that contains message
that indicates that probably his relationship with his partner was not working well
and he wanted to share his feeling to his partner but did not sent the mail.
Finally I found out some lead for the investigation, This was one mail where he
was offered one job. The emails shows that he rejected that job offer straight
away. But then I found another email in which that company was asking
information about what food he would like to eat when he goes there. This means

that Eric was going to that company. This gave my investigation a solid clue about
Eric as the case may be that at first he was not thinking of leaving the company
but then he decided to join that company and leaked Enron’s important
information. This might be an indication that he was leaking or sending out
company’s information and by the time he was done with this, he accepted
another company’s offer.
I have shown another email in which it seemed that he accepted the offer.

Investigating further, I found some mails where he was sending out company’s
restricted and sensitive information to may people. And after this mail, he also
send out one mail to these receivers only saying please delete my previous mail.
Overall impression of Eric Saibi that I got from this investigation is that he was an
efficient employee as he used to receive all the meetings related emails and knew
company’s important information. . But he leaked company’s sensitive
information also, so he may be good at his work but he is not loyal to the
company.