Enron founder Ken Lay found guilty on all counts,
By on May 25th, 2006 at 12:05 pm
Enron founder Ken Lay found guilty on all counts,
former CEO Jeffrey Skilling found guilty of conspiracy, wire fraud and securities fraud.
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I understand its tough to mix up all the corporate cronies, but I do believe you mean Enron’s Ken Lay, not Exxon’s.
Hooray!!! I was unaware that there was still any justice left in this country!
May 25th, 2006 at 12:09 pmWonderful news!
May 25th, 2006 at 12:09 pmEnron not exxon
May 25th, 2006 at 12:09 pmExxon? Wishfull thinking on someones part.
May 25th, 2006 at 12:10 pmReady for the Pardon Wand everyone?
May 25th, 2006 at 12:11 pmPerhaps Exxon is next!?!
May 25th, 2006 at 12:12 pmChickens, welcome to the roost.
May 25th, 2006 at 12:13 pmNow is the time for the DNC, MoveOn, etc.. to show the link between the White House and these criminals. Energy Task Force anyone?
May 25th, 2006 at 12:16 pmWill Dubya really let his long time friend and king fund raiser go to prison? Is there a pardon in Ken’s future?
May 25th, 2006 at 12:16 pmOff topic:
President Bush appointed a longtime scholar at the American Enterprise Institute yesterday to be his top domestic policy adviser, a post that has been vacant since February, when Claude A. Allen stepped down after being charged with stealing more than $5,000 in a phony refund scheme.
Karl Zinsmeister, who has worked the past 12 years as editor in chief of the American Enterprise magazine, is slated to assume his White House post June 12.
Ahhh, The Zinsmeister-meister
May 25th, 2006 at 12:22 pmAh, Kenny Boy. Makes me smile. Where’s the money, Kenny?
May 25th, 2006 at 12:27 pmNext, Bush, Cheney, Rove, Libby, Hastert, blah, blah, blah…
how much time are they getting? Lets hope bush doesnt pardon them
May 25th, 2006 at 12:28 pmThis just in…
Justice department denies Enron trial has ended and any guilty verdicts were recieved.
May 25th, 2006 at 12:30 pmTHE GUILTIEST GUYS IN THE ROOM! YEEEEHAH!
May 25th, 2006 at 12:31 pmExpect to see Mrs. Lay on TV(FOX?) with a used stiff Kleenex crying crocodile tears, and saying,”they,the jury, don’t understand.My husband is a good man and what he did at Enron, was for the good of the people”.
May 25th, 2006 at 12:31 pmIt will be interesting to see what President Bush has to say today, given his past denials regarding his long friendship with Lay. After all, when the Enron scandal first exploded, President Bush on January 10, 2002 offered one of the biggest whoppers of his presidency:
“I got to know Ken Lay when he was the head of the-what they call the Governor’s Business Council in Texas. He was a supporter of Ann Richards in my run in 1994. And she had named him the head of the Governor’s Business Council. And I decided to leave him in place, just for the sake of continuity. And that’s when I first got to know Ken.”
Sadly, a mountain of correspondence between the Bush and Lay suggests otherwise.
For the details, see:
May 25th, 2006 at 12:39 pm“Bush Lies About Ken Lay.”
how about this for 2008
May 25th, 2006 at 12:40 pmfitgerald – pres
sean berkowitz – vp
bruce fein – AG
spitzer – sec state
If Justice is still alive in our country, then we’ll have to build more prisons just to house ALL these Republican criminals, Libby, Delay, Abramoff, Fastow Lay, Skilling, Cunningham, Bush, Cheney, Rove, Hastert, etc, etc, etc, the list is long indeed. And Lets not forget ALL those REPUBLICAN PEDOPHILIA criminals! – http://www.armchairsubversive.com/
It’s official: Republican GOP – A party built on corporate crime and religious hypocrisy.
http://electrobus.com – New Progressive Internet Radio – Because Justice Rocks!
May 25th, 2006 at 12:49 pmDoes this mean there is a god?
I wonder if they will see any jail time.
May 25th, 2006 at 1:00 pmi’m of the belief that there are many gods, and angels, j.c….
this is good news, not unexpected, but a sigh of relief anyway…
is it just my computer, or is TP really s l o o o w today?
May 25th, 2006 at 1:10 pm“The wheels of the Gods grind slow…
May 25th, 2006 at 1:20 pmyet exceedingly fine………”
my connection is balky as well, I’m guessing it is the flood of jubilant TP visitors as Justice in America begins to gain some traction……………
May 25th, 2006 at 1:23 pmit took the bush admin. justice dept. to bring these guys down. clinton/gore admin justice dept. could have done it – oh thats right….too stupid
May 25th, 2006 at 1:33 pmDid you know–Ken Lay Edition.
See ya Kenny.
May 25th, 2006 at 2:03 pmo man… just read this: Sentencing takes place September 11, a date that has figured prominently in Bush’s horrific presidency.
May 25th, 2006 at 2:05 pmSince Bush has claimed that he “hardly knows” his dear friend “Kenny Boy” who just happened to be one of Bush’s more prolific campaign contributors in 2000, I cant help but wonder if Dubby Boy will visit Kenny Boy very often when the latter is doing 30 years in Leavenworth? Dubby Boy should probably find out what the inside of a prison cell is like. I’m tempted to mail a tube of KY jelly to both Kenny Boy and Jeffy as a going to their new home for 30 years present. However on second thought I think I’ll send them both sandpaper instead.
May 25th, 2006 at 2:13 pmOnly because juries are still made up of average Americans and not Corporate American hand puppets. As soon as they can find a way to buy that system – we’re over as a ‘free’ nation.
But, this is most excellent news!
May 25th, 2006 at 2:16 pmLet’s see the sentencing.
May 25th, 2006 at 2:21 pmIdeal: No parole. Forfeiture of all earthly possessions.
More Likely: Commuted Sentence. Loss of some obscure license. Keeps his house to sell later on. Maybe even a presidential pardon.
at least Clinton and Gore were able to get Elian Ganzalas back to Cuba. We are safer because of them. God bless em
May 25th, 2006 at 2:22 pmI just hope Kenny Boy and Jeffy watched HBO’s OZ before they got their asses sent off to prison. After all, they need to learn about prison romances in advance.
May 25th, 2006 at 2:27 pm#23, I could be wrong but didn’t the Enron bankruptcy happen in late 2001 when Georgie-boy was president? Or is this another event like 9/11 where repukes have a selective memory? Repukes seem to forget that the worst terrorist attack in our country’s history happened on W’s watch as well…
May 25th, 2006 at 2:29 pm#31, all their crimes did not take place the night before they were caught. they transpired all through-out the nineties, right under ur boyz and janet reno’s nose. idiot
May 25th, 2006 at 2:38 pmYAY! something else to blame CLINTON for!!!
May 25th, 2006 at 3:03 pma truly amazing piece of trolling there…
#33. I wonder if we could level the playing field a bit by getting an intern to give Bush a blowjob (god what a horrible ordeal that must be!!). Then we can stop blaming Bill for everything Bush has done and get down to pointing the finger at the Chimp where it belongs?? Short of a blow job for Dubby, I cant fathom how we can get the blame for everything shifted away from Clinton. Then again, I’m not a Repugnican, so I dont understand how that lower life form “thinks.”
May 25th, 2006 at 3:15 pm#34 it must suck to be you
May 25th, 2006 at 3:21 pm#35 Its not so bad. You should try it some time.
May 25th, 2006 at 3:25 pmHey Folks
May 25th, 2006 at 3:26 pmMichael Moore has a link (”more love letters”)
to Smoking Gun website.
They are posting just released correspondence between Dubious and Kenny Boy…
Gotta see these!!!!!
Can we at least get some intelligent trolls in here to argue. Now let me break this down for you. Read it really slow so you will understand because I know what low IQ’s you 29%ers have.
First, to get this straight, the Bush administration did not do ANYTHING. Are you so stupid that you believe every person at every level in the justice department is appointed by the sitting president? Yeah, you trolls probably are.
There is no possible way the justice department can audit every single company that files SEC required reports (10-k’s 10-Q’s etc.). Basically, if the SEC notices wrongdoing then they are the ones to investigate and prosecute. The kind of fraud that went on here should have, and probably was, caught by the accountants, but they did not do anything. It took a wistle blower and some good reporting by financial publications before the market noticed there was anything wrong at Enron. Once the house of cards caved in and the dust settled the investigation into wrong doing began.
If Bush could have stopped this he would have. However, it had been reported so widely that there was nothing he could do to bail out his old pals.
May 25th, 2006 at 5:05 pmEveryone on here thinks corporate crime is a Rupublican thing, wait til the Sallie Mae story hits the fan with all those Clinton cronies.
May 25th, 2006 at 5:33 pmLay is not going to bode well in prison. Bubba has something special just for him and it is going to require a lot of KY Jelly.
I’ll say it again.
Build more prisons!
Invest in KY Jelly!
Did you see the video of Lay being led away in handcuffs? Priceless!
May 25th, 2006 at 7:25 pmWhat sort of time is he looking at? Has the sentence or potential sentence been discussed? Personally, I want to see him rot in jail for ruining so many people’s lives just because he wanted more money. Oh, and his fortune (or whatever is left of it) donated to some charitable cause.
May 26th, 2006 at 1:47 pmENRON SCANDAL EXPOSED IN 2001. ALL ,REPEAT ALL CRIMES COMMITTED AT ENRON BETWEEN 1996 AND 2001. CAN WE SAY THANK YOU BILL CLINTON AND JANET RENO? I KNOW I THANK EM EVERYDAY. I MADE A CRUSHING ON ENRON, ADELPHIA AND WORLD COM. THEM AND A FEW OF THE DOT COM STOCKS. THANKFULLY I BAILED ON ALL WHEN BUSH GOT ELECTED. DAMN YOU GEORGE BUSH, BECAUSE OF YOUR JUSTICE DEPT I’M STUCK LIVING OFF OF MY MILLIONS I MADE DURING THE LAWLESS 90′S
May 27th, 2006 at 2:22 amI’ve read some of the above comments. You are exceedingly naive. The latest about Lay and Skilling are that they have had their sentencings postponed until Oct. 26th. They were certainly not led off to prison, like you or I would be. Also, I now see that Lay will likely serve not the 45 years reported in the press, but 3 years, or 6 months per count. Something about not directly stealing money. As for serving his time in Leavenworth, well, I don’t know which country club will be his short-lived home, but I will bet you anything that it will not be Leavenworth.
All men are created equal, but some men are more equal than others.
Larry E.
June 20th, 2006 at 4:07 am