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Enron Ex-CEO Skilling Taken to Hospital
Yahoo! News ^
| 4/9/04
| Donna De La Cruz - AP
Posted on 04/09/2004 1:44:55 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK -
Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling was taken to a hospital early Friday after several people called police saying he was pulling on their clothes and accusing them of being FBI (news - web sites) agents, a police source told The Associated Press.
Police found Skilling at 4 a.m. at the corner of Park Avenue and East 73rd Street and determined he might be an "emotionally disturbed person," said the source, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity.
Police did not charge Skilling with a crime. They took him to New York Presbyterian Hospital for observation. Hospital officials did not immediately return calls for comment.
Messages left for Skilling's lawyers, Bruce Hiler and Dan Petrocelli, were not immediately returned.
Skilling was at two bars in Manhattan — American Trash and The Voodoo Lounge — where he allegedly ran up to patrons and pulled open their clothes, the source said.
"He was shouting at them 'You're an FBI agent and you're following me,'" the source said.
Skilling allegedly did the same thing to people on the street, the source added. He was with his wife at the time.
Skilling was described as being intoxicated and highly uncooperative when he was approached by police, the source said.
Skilling has been charged with fraud, insider trading and other crimes in the energy trader's colossal collapse.
Skilling is accused of participating in widespread schemes to mislead government regulators and investors about the company's earnings. He has pleaded innocent to all 35 federal counts against him, and posted his $5 million bond with a cashier's check.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: New York
KEYWORDS: enron; exceo; hospital; skilling; taken
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Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling is seen in this Feb. 19, 2004, file photo taken in Houston. Skilling was taken to a Manhattan, New York hospital for treatment early Friday morning, April 9, 2004, after several people called police saying he was pulling on their clothes and accusing them of being FBI (news - web sites) agents, a police source said. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
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To: NormsRevenge
He'll probably do real well in prison.
To: NormsRevenge
Looks like he's going to make a run at the insanity defense.
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posted on
04/09/2004 1:48:29 PM PDT
by
So Cal Rocket
(If consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, John F. Kerry’s mind must be freaking enormous)
To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
Throw him in the drunk tank until he sobers up, then off to jail with his behind.
5
posted on
04/09/2004 1:48:48 PM PDT
by
jocon307
(The dems don't get it, the American people do.)
To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
He'll probably do real well in prison.
as long as he avoids the pruno. ;-)
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posted on
04/09/2004 1:49:04 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi Mac ... Become a FR Monthly Donor ... Kerry thread archive @ /~normsrevenge)
To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
He'll probably do real well in prison.Especially, if he pulls on other people's clothes.
7
posted on
04/09/2004 1:49:04 PM PDT
by
marvlus
To: NormsRevenge
Set up for a stint at Club Fed? "Your honor, clearly my client is not emotionally stable enough for standard incarceration..."
8
posted on
04/09/2004 1:49:28 PM PDT
by
Mr. Bird
(Ain't the beer cold!)
To: So Cal Rocket
Looks like he's going to make a run at the insanity defense. Bingo!
9
posted on
04/09/2004 1:50:46 PM PDT
by
RJL
To: NormsRevenge
Oops! Poor Skilling....it's driven him nuts.
10
posted on
04/09/2004 1:51:11 PM PDT
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: NormsRevenge
Come on people. How many here can truthfully say they haven't opened people's clothes and accused them of being FBI agents?
11
posted on
04/09/2004 1:53:05 PM PDT
by
Ken H
To: Ken H
Don't rush me, thinking......
12
posted on
04/09/2004 1:55:17 PM PDT
by
cynicom
To: cynicom
I had stock in Enron, 100 shares that I bought at 60 and fortunately, was able to still sell at 16, so I "only" lost $4500. How appropriate that the former Enron CEO is reportedly found doing a very poor "insane" act (and a very good drunk act) at bars named American Trash and Voodoo Lounge; the names fit his character and his method of running the corporation.
13
posted on
04/09/2004 2:01:27 PM PDT
by
laconic
To: NormsRevenge
The Empire strikes back! Obviously, they were FBI goons, or else they wouldn't of been bothered by innocent clothes pulling!
14
posted on
04/09/2004 2:05:51 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
Comment #15 Removed by Moderator
To: laconic
I can't wait until Charlie Wang and Sanjay Kumar become crazed street people.
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posted on
04/09/2004 2:08:04 PM PDT
by
eno_
(Freedom Lite - it's almost worth defending)
To: Buckhead
He'll be okay, as long as he doesn't accept any martinis from Linda Lay. =8^O)
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posted on
04/09/2004 2:10:23 PM PDT
by
lentulusgracchus
(Et praeterea caeterum censeo, delenda est Carthago. -- M. Porcius Cato)
To: eno_
Jack Welch and "Chainsaw Al" Dunlap.
Sumner Redstone.
Michael Eisner.
Michael Milken.
Who else we got?
18
posted on
04/09/2004 2:11:52 PM PDT
by
lentulusgracchus
(Et praeterea caeterum censeo, delenda est Carthago. -- M. Porcius Cato)
To: Mr. Bird
He was always going to go to Club Fed.
It's not like he was selling marajuana. He is just a white collar criminal for goodness sake.
To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
aaahhh the old insanity defense...walking around in his bathrobe is next....
20
posted on
04/09/2004 2:20:49 PM PDT
by
smiley
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