frankbones Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 I hope they burn. http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/25/news/newsmakers/enron_verdict/index.htm?cnn=yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoCalMike Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 These cases always scare me, because the trial is always highly publicized, and the jury finds them guilty. Then of course they appeal, and the next trial gets next to no press coverage and then you find out their sentences were either over-turned or severely reduced....I am crossing my fingers that the sentences stand though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankbones Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 Anything less than hard time in a Federal "****-you-in-the-ass" prison is them getting off easy. The number of lives destroyed by these men is appalling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hooper Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 Have fun tossing salad, Kenny Boy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilmer17 Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 A rousing success for the Bush Justice Dept. Im certain the credit will be given where it is due. (crickets) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hooper Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 A rousing success for the Bush Justice Dept.Im certain the credit will be given where it is due. (crickets) Considering they were buds, I wonder if Dubya will visit Kenny Boy in prison. Might be a little awkward. "I gave your campaign 600 grand and this is how you reward me?!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilmer17 Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 Clinton might. It was his Justice Dept that sat on their hands and allowed it to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fight_on_til_you_have_won Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 I have a bad feeling that their sentences won't be that harsh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney B Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 Jury Convicts Enron's Skilling and Lay HOUSTON, May 25 -- A federal jury today convicted former Enron Corp. top executives Jeffrey K. Skilling and Kenneth L. Lay of multiple fraud charges, writing a powerful coda to the government's four-year-old push to hold executives accountable for wrongdoing on their watch. In a separate case, U.S. District Judge Simeon T. Lake III found Lay guilty on four charges of bank fraud. Skilling, 52, and Lay, 64, once stood near the pinnacle of American business, as the energy trading powerhouse they created out of a stodgy pipeline company grew to become the nation's seventh largest public company. But their fortunes collapsed in a heap along with the business in December 2001. Now the two men, who together invested close to $70 million in their defense, face the possibility of spending the rest of their lives in prison and living in history as the ringleaders of a fraud at a company whose name became synonymous with accounting tricks and rule-breaking. For more click link My 1,000th post! What a great way to get it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney B Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 Whoops, beaten by 1 minute. Merge, please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimReefa Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 Apparently Lay faces a max sentence of 165 years in prison, Skilling 185. I don't know what the minimum sentences are, but Skilling was convicted of 19 seperate counts, and Lay on at least 8, so they should be substantial. Sentencing is on September 11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 Yeah baybee! Any chance we can all come together on this one and not make it a Bush/Clinton fingerpointing extravanganza? At least we all can agree that these tools deserve whatever is coming to them and more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilmer17 Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 Agreed. I hope they do hard time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nelms Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 I hope they are repeatedly raped while in prison. After all, they did financially rape thousands of hard working people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief skin Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 GODD!!!! Lock them up for thirty years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsHokieFan Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 Yeah baybee!Any chance we can all come together on this one and not make it a Bush/Clinton fingerpointing extravanganza? At least we all can agree that these tools deserve whatever is coming to them and more. :laugh: :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMac Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 These cases always scare me, because the trial is always highly publicized, and the jury finds them guilty. Then of course they appeal, and the next trial gets next to no press coverage and then you find out their sentences were either over-turned or severely reduced....I am crossing my fingers that the sentences stand though. Obviously they go through an appeals process, but I wonder if they are a flight risk now? I mean the maximum sentence is 155 years right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeownU Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 Considering they were buds, I wonder if Dubya will visit Kenny Boy in prison.Might be a little awkward. "I gave your campaign 600 grand and this is how you reward me?!" I got $100 that says Dubya gives him a presidential pardon on his last day of his term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwbiggs Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 They will be out on good behavior in 5-10 and will still have their fortunes. Meanwhile the people they ramrodded will be retiring on welfare. Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gichin13 Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 sweet news. they should fry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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