Another kind of minority-interest transaction took place toward the end of 1999, when Enron was desperate to show cash flow. In a deal called Project Nahanni, Enron, in essence, borrowed $485 million from Citigroup and raised a sliver of equity ($15 million) through a minority-interest financing, used that money to buy Treasury bonds, sold the Treasury bonds, and booked the proceeds as cash flow from operations under the pretext that buying and selling bonds was part of Enron’s day-to-day business. That $500 million represented a staggering 41 percent of the total $1.2 billion in operating
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