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oh wow, Lay is getting the full treatment...
IMO? they should deprive him of vaseline priveleges at the commissary too
and the jury didn't waste any time getting it on either...
funny thing about the Fox "News" cretins? Cavuto was saying just before the verdict came in that "you can't blame these guys for being in charge of a company that fails" Fox "News" must go out of its way to hire these whackos...
at least in Texas they still care about the truth...
in Alabammy they let Scrushy the healthsouth creep go.... The verdict was a resounding defeat for federal prosecutors in Birmingham, Alabama, who had the cooperation of 15 HealthSouth executives who pleaded guilty to participating in the fraud. Five former finance chiefs testified against Scrushy, who was accused of inflating profit from 1996 to 2002 and propping up HealthSouth shares to enrich himself.
``This is a stunning defeat for the government,'' said Robert Mintz, a former federal prosecutor. ``I think they have to be scratching their heads over exactly how this one slipped away from them. What the defense was able to do here was raise questions as to the motives of all of these various cooperators.''
ya never know what'll happen in court in some places....
and BTW? Rove is from 'bama too
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quote:Originally posted by BongLoad: So when does the sentencing come down? Skilling got convicted on 19 of 28 charges...
Hey Ken, do you know what it feels like to run through a cornfield backwards?!?!?!?!?!?!
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That's true. The scary thing is these guys totally believe their own BS and have lied to themselves to the point they don't see the trail of destruction they left... the shattered families, broken lives, and complete upheavel. I don't think most folks realize the torment and torture they have put people through.
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I just hope they don't go to the usual "Club Fed," with good meals and plasma TVs. They should get the same treatment as a crack dealer would. (If there were any justice, they would have the same lawyers as well.)
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"Enron contributed nearly $6 million to federal parties and candidates between 1989 and 2001, more than two-thirds to Republicans, according to OpenSecrets.org, the Web site of the Center for Responsive Politics.
More than $2 million of that money came during the 1999-2000 election cycle, when the company became one of the biggest backers of President George W. Bush's bid for the White House. Lay personally raised at least $100,000 for the campaign, and Bush used to refer to him by the nickname "Kenny Boy.'"
- Bloomberg
Kenny Boy, you are doing a heck of a job!
Incidently, Christopher Cox, who has a history of indictments for financial crimes, is head of the SEC. He was appointed by George Bush, who also has a criminal history, much of it, financial crimes.
Christopher Cox wrote and spearheaded laws which enabled the Enron scam. Those laws still stand today.
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Nah, those two boys will die in prison. My guess both will receive at least twenty years of vacation with Big Bubba and buddies.
Here is the deal. Enron financial reporting was so twisted and convoluted, so well hidden in false companies, lenders, shells and such, even world class financial experts could not unravel all of it and spot the problems. Leading experts could not make a lick of sense of Enron financials.
Prosecuting attorneys, the Little Boys, had to take apart all the hidden boxes, display each carefully and clearly for jurors to see, then put all of it back together for jurors to see the big picture, to make sense of it all.
Prosecution had to do what financial experts could not do.
Nah, no room for appeals. Those Little Boys have performed such a good job laying out all of this hidden Enron crime, air tight case.
If there is a failure, this is not dragging George Bush and Christopher Cox in as known co-conspirators with Enron.
Nope, those Enron boys will be afforded a free long vacation at the Gray Bar Hotel.
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