posted on May 25, 2006 09:07:23 AM
Fox is saying that Ken Lay was found guilty on all counts.
Skilling found guilty on many but not sure if all yet.
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posted on May 25, 2006 11:46:23 AM
Lay was found guilty of all 6 charges, Skilling was guilty of most of the charges with the exception of the insider trading charges, where he was found guilty of only one charge... the one where he traded stock on September 17, the first day that trading was allowed after 9/11.
posted on May 25, 2006 12:16:56 PM
When is "Kenny-Boy" Lay a name Geo Bush called Kenneth Lay the Bush family's close friend going to jail?
Now that this crook Kenney-Boy has been convicted you will see a lot more about how close he and Bush really are. You might even see how many millions of dollars Kenney-Boy was responsible for given to Bushy-Boy.
THIS NEWS IS JUST ANOTHER REASON TO JOIN THE GREAT AMERICAN PROTEST ON THE NOVEMBER 7th 2006 ELECTIONS.
posted on May 25, 2006 01:19:59 PM
Hmmm. How much money did Ken Lay steal that went directly to the Bush/Cheney campaigns? Just ask all of those ex-Enron employees how they feel about it.
Oh, you'll see the typical neocons defend Bush with their rhetoric, but most Americans see the truth. They see the Bush Administration and Congress have taken corruption to new heights.
As Stephen Colbert says... they are NOT sinking like the Titanic... they are soaring like the Hindenburg.
posted on May 25, 2006 01:52:23 PM
Lay, who President Bush affectionately referred to as "Kenny-boy" when the two forged an alliance in the 1990s to advance Bush's political ambitions and Lay's business prospects, contributed $122,500 to Bush's gubernatorial campaigns in Texas. Lay would later explain to a PBS "Frontline" interviewer that, though he had worked closely with former Texas Governor Ann Richards, the Democrat incumbent who Bush challenged in 1994, he backed the Republican because "I was very close to George W."
Needless to say, once Bush became governor, Lay got his phone calls returned. A report issued by Public Citizen in February, 2001, months before the Enron scandal broke, identified Lay as "a long-time Bush family friend and an architect of Bush's policies on electricity deregulation, taxes and tort reform while Bush was Texas governor."
No wonder Lay had Enron give $50,000 to pay for Bush's second inaugural party in Austin in 1999 -- a showcase event that was organized by Karl Rove and others to help the Texas governor step onto the national political stage.
After Bush gave Enron exactly what it wanted in 1999, by signing legislation that deregulated the state's electrical markets, Lay knew he had found his candidate for president
When Bush opened his campaign, Lay opened the cash spiggots.
As a "Bush Pioneer" in the run-up to the 2000 presidential election, Lay was a key member of the Bush campaign's fund-raising inner circle. Under Lay's leadership, Enron ultimately gave Bush $550,025, making the corporation the Texan's No. 1 career patron at the time the 2000 election campaign began, according to the Center for Public Integrity. Lay personally pumped almost $400,000 into Republican hard- and soft-money funds, while Enron slipped another $1.5 million into the GOP's soft-money cesspool.
But that was just the beginning. Lay sent a letter to Enron executives urging them to contribute to Bush's campaign. More than 100 of them -- including Skilling, a major Bush giver since 1993, when he cut his first $5,000 check to GW's gubernatorial campaign -- did just that. Dozens of spouses wrote, including "homemaker" and frequent $10,000 donor Linda Lay, gave as well, making the Enron "family" a prime source of the money that gave Bush his early advantage over Republican rivals such as Arizona Senator John McCain.
All told, it is estimated that, over the years prior the company's bankruptcy, Lay, his company and its employees contributed close to $2 million to fund George W. Bush's political rise.
Lay found other ways to help, as well. He put Enron's corporate jets at the disposal of the Bush campaign in 2000. He kicked in $5,000 to pay for the Florida recount fight, while a top Enron "consultant," former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, ran the Republican's recount effort. He even paid for his own bookkeeping, chipping in $1,000 to help the Bush-Cheney campaign comply with campaign-finance laws. And Lay and Enron gave $300,000 to underwrite the Bush-Cheney inauguration festivities in 2001.
ANOTHER GOOD REASON TO JOIN THE GREAT AMERICAN PROTEST ON NOVEMBER 7th 2006
posted on May 25, 2006 02:03:51 PM
Bush is not the only one,even Alan Greenspan come knocking on the door of Enron.
Ken Lay 's family is trying to raise money for a 5 million dollars bail bond.
/ lets all stop whining !! /
posted on May 25, 2006 02:10:32 PM
Bigpeepa,
So what do the democrats do?
bake cookies? trade pork belly futures??
/ lets all stop whining !! /
[ edited by hwahwa on May 25, 2006 02:14 PM ]
posted on May 25, 2006 02:26:14 PM
What do Democrats do?
First, they need to keep their act clean, and the Jefferson scandal isn't helping them. Second, they look to the future, give America their plan to lead, and lastly, show America that Democrats are tough on corruption from all angles, not just saying it but doing something else.
The only way to clean up politics is from the inside.
posted on May 25, 2006 02:45:55 PMSecond, they look to the future, give America their plan to lead, and lastly, show America that Democrats are tough on corruption from all angles, not just saying it but doing something else.
And if Americans don't swallow that then they try to come up with something else that they hope Americans will swallow and if not that then something else and something else and something else.
If you have a Democrat or Republican in your area that you feel is not working for you vote against that person in November.
Just look at them running around now talking sh*t scared out of their wits about their jobs.
If enough of these self-serving bastards lose their jobs it will be a start to make the rest of them smarten up and start working for us not people like Kenney-Boy Lay.
KEEP THE PRESSURE ON AND SHOW THESE BASTARDS THAT AMERICANS BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS ARE SICK AND TIRED OF THEIR CRAP.
COME JOIN THE GREAT AMERICAN PROTEST ON NOVEMBER 7th 2006
posted on May 26, 2006 02:54:59 AM
On the face of it, Lay and Skilling look soooo respectable. BUT they stole millions from the pockets of hard-working Americans and deserve to have the book thrown at them. In some ways, white-collar criminals are the worst, I think.
