Posted on 10/13/2009 8:21:19 AM PDT by opentalk
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court will consider throwing out the convictions of former Enron Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling for his role in one of the largest scandals in U.S. business history.
The court said Tuesday it will hear Skilling's appeal of lower court rulings that upheld all 19 of his 2006 convictions of conspiracy, securities fraud, insider trading and lying to auditors involving the 2001 collapse of the one-time energy giant. Skilling, serving a 24-year prison term, is asking the court to consider whether the federal "honest services" fraud statute was applied correctly.
>> the federal “honest services” fraud statute
Wonder if it covers the Feds themselves?
If it does, there are a lot of them that should be doing hard time alongside Skilling.
They are doing time already...making confetti of the US Dollar at their “prison” industry work stations.
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