Posted on 05/25/2006 9:11:42 AM PDT by Smedley
Just on the News - Ken Lay convicted on all counts - Skilling convicted on most of the 28 counts against him. Quick jury verdict.
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You're welcome.
Then throw them in the slammer and throw away the key!
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It is a crime for us commoners to come up with a pyramid scheme. Nevertheless, the Social Security program is the biggest pyramid scheme of them all.
Two set of rules. One for the commoners, another one for the lords.
unfortunately, it ain't gonna be hard to tie the president to his biggest lifetime campaign contributor. We need Snow on the air ASAP denouncing Lay and saying the president will give those old campaign funds to charity. Or this is gonna stick and stick and stick.
BS
The real power seat in Texas is the Lt. Governor.Not sure how to answer your question.
Amazing in one respect, but not on another - When I last served on a jury, the instructions from the judge were far from clear... some jurors had some doubt that the defendant may have pulled the trigger, but wading through the definition of complicity in our state and determining if it applied was difficult at best.... had he worded things slightly differently, it would have been much easier....
"What took the jury so long?"
Lots of debate and evidence to slog through.
Uhh... I know that, which Pelosi mentions constantly. Get it now?
Bush was good pals with "Kenny", and Pelosi and company are always behaving as if this is somehow unusual, that they don't all have all kinds of links to all kinds of no-goodniks. Pelosi is the last person to be dubious about anyone's campaign finances, but she is always mentioning the Connection.
> As much as anything, Lay and Skillin were caught in a market collapse and being in a leveraged position, they got caught in the downdraft and didn't know how to get out of it.
Um, no. Like Social Security, they played a massive game of Ponzi-style financial shenanigans, and hundreds of thousands paid the price.
Finally they are going to jail. Good. I hope it is a PMITA prison and not Club Fed.
Ken Lay never slept in the Lincoln bedroom while Clinton was in office:
You may possess the only thing dealing with Enron that has value.
Don't get me wrong, I am not saying they don't deserve jail time, but, how long??
And who will pay the price for the social security scheme?
OK - didn't get your point the first time. But it's certainly not surprising that the Democrats are going to make as much hay with this as they can...
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