And then there was just Skilling . . .

[donsu]

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_969.shtml




If Ken Lay’s sudden death Wednesday from a massive coronary at 64 shocks one, it also raises the queasy questions, was the heart attack really the culprit? Or was Kenneth Lay a man who knew too much, and was therefore too dangerous to live?

In fact, in the wake of his passing, comes another bizarre twist, that Lay’s death can void the guilty verdict against him, even spare his survivors financial ruin, and challenge the government to seize his remaining real estates and financial assets.

What’s more, the LA Times yesterday reported (Death Puts Lay Conviction in Doubt), "Beneath the surface, hard feelings continued to fester, as shown by the reaction of some callers to news radio KTRH-AM (740) in Houston scant hours after Lay’s death. More than one caller expressed doubts that Lay really was dead and wondered whether the reports of his demise weren’t part of an insurance scam.”

Additionally, Lay’s death echoes the equally shocking death of Enron’s vice chairman Clifford Baxter on January 25, 2002. Baxter was found by police inside his Mercedes at 2:23 a.m., near his home in the wealthy Sugar Land, Texas, suburb, dead supposedly from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head

Yet under Baxter’s EVIDENCE OF INJURY, page 3 of the coroner’s report notes "The defect is stellate and, when the wound edges are repositioned, measures 7.2 centimeters in the horizontal direction and 4.5 centimeters in the vertical direction." As apfn.org reports, “This suggests a wound inflicted by a starburst of rat shot pellets which were far enough from the muzzle of the weapon to have separated from one another by as much as 2.83 inches. Who would, or could, shoot themselves in the temple like this?”

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And as Skilling awaits sentencing, no exoneration is apparent. At 52, he was also convicted of conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud after three months of testimony from 54 witnesses, and six days of jury deliberation in the fraud/conspiracy trial. If I were him, I’d keep my back to the wall, hire a body guard and a wine taster, at least until sentencing.

The Larger Implications

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Something Bigger Ticking in the Silence?

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What’s Up, Doc?
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read it all and gasp
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the Bush Body Count keeps on growing

[Ganja Ninja]

1. What do you want to bet he skips?

[Swamp Rat]

2. Ken Lay is still alive until I see the autopsy and the DNA sample

[ladjf]

4. I think he's dead because it would be to no one's profit but his

to fake his death. He probably knows lots about the CIA connections to some of the Enron investment groups. His untimely death is just another example of how fortunate the administration has been with untimely deaths of possible witnesses.

[Swamp Rat]

5. He would profit.

He would be free to spend his money in other countries while he lives a lavish lifestyle in the Cayman Islands, for ex.... Or, maybe Cheney killed him.

Something is rotten in Denmark.

[bryant69]

3. Yep we can't prove didn't kill these people so he must have done it

I have to say this new standard of proof is going to make policing easy.

Bryant
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