Posted on 05/29/2006 4:28:43 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
New York - Two disgraced Enron executives, founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling, were found guilty on all six counts and 19 of 28 counts, respectively. Both face lengthy prison terms.
Where they will serve their time can be almost as important as how much time they'll do, says Alan Ellis, a former president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Ellis now specializes in the defense of white-collar offenders.
Although criminals don't get to choose their prisons, they can make requests. And assuming their desired location matches their security classification, as defined by the Bureau of Prisons--minimum, low, medium or high--and has space available, requests are often honored.
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The days of "Club Fed"--think golf courses and lobster bakes--are long gone. But minimum security facilities, known as federal prison camps, are the best suited for disgraced CEOs and other white-collar criminals. In theory, inmates in these camps show no risk of violence or escape. Both shoe-mogul Steven Madden and Martha Stewart are FPC alums. . . .
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I don't see the point in putting these crooks in max-security prisons, it simply isn't worth the money.
But, they certainly have earned hard time, and that is what they should receive.
There are Scandinavian jails (Sweden?) where the prisoner lives on a private estate.
What about Oswald State Penitentiary?
Facing 145 years, I'd already be on a private jet heading to south America.
One comic on late night television has suggested that being an inmate with a name pronounced "can lay" could be a problem in any prison facility.
WTF is going to want to turn that old man out???
Plenty. Old men can't fight back too well.
In 1973-4, as a sergeant of the U.S. Air Force, I was stationed at Eglin AFB. The minimum security prison at Eglin, in the Florida panhandle (Ft. Walton beach area,) was a great place to be incarcerated. I remember playing softball games against the prisoners, and joking that they couldn't steal bases.
I volunteered as a counselor there, and would see the prisoners at Friday Night Sabbath services. A few of them were Jewish, but most were not. One of them confided that they would come to the services for the wine. I guess a couple of one oz. shots of thick, sweet Manishevitz Wine is better than no wine at all. Most, if not all of the inmates were white collar criminals.
Give the scumbags 3 years top and make them do community service teaching classes to undergraduates about the dangers of greed in business. I mean, c'mon. It's not like they created a taxpayer-funded retirement system named Social Security or something.
Ding. Give the man a Cohiba. You know they've got the Benjamins to make it happen.
We have an extradition treaty with every country in South America. In fact, I can think of only a few countries in the world with which we don't have a treaty, eg: North Korea, Iran, and a couple of others I can't recall.
Do you think these guys are destitute? Money buys things especially in third world countries.
Other than the sheer arrogance of these people, I never understood why the whole lot of them didn't flee the country back in the Fall of 2001. The problem that they are having now is that most of their assets have been frozen.
As far as extradition goes, a lot of the countries won't cooperate in cases of non-violent white-collar crimes. Marc Rich was living openly in Europe for a long time before he bribed Klintoon for a pardon.
Why is there a "Best" places to go to prison anyway?
These guys had tens and hundreds of millions, they had to know that the whole thing would come crashing down sooner or later. I just don't get why they hung around, they could have lived like royalty in some other country.
I saw Bo Dietl on Neil Cavuto's show today...and he said he bet they headed to some country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with America.
He said that the judge just let them go free...and Bo said that is basically what that Marc Rich did, before Bubba gave him a pardon.
He said that HE himself would do that, if he had money and was facing sure jail time.
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