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Enron's Kenneth Lay Dies
Don420 writes "This morning the biggest corporate criminal in modern history, Kenneth Lay, died of a massive coronary before he could receive his sentence. Lay was found guilty of being in charge of the scheme that had many lose their live-savings through a scheme of complex offshore holdings and is to thank for our having to live with Sarbanes-Oxely." From the article: "Enron filed for bankruptcy in December 2001 after investigators found it had used partnerships to conceal more than $1 billion in debt and inflate profits. Enron's downfall cost 4,000 employees their jobs and many of them their life savings, and led to billions of dollars of losses for investors."
'nuf said.
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You'll be there too, eh?
So, now everybody here who keeps saying "Ken Lay did blah blah blah and never faced any jail time" is actually right.
I hope BSD isn't really dying...
Do you have ESP?
Construction has begun at the Hope Memorial Cemetery to install new drainage tiles in anticipation of the 4,000+ people expected to arrive within the next week to piss on Mr. Lay's grave.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Ethical paragon Kenneth Lay was found dead in his Colorado home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to business culture. Truly an American icon.
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God opted for the death penalty.
Ted Bundy was polite and charming too.
..unless the polite charming people also have a lot of money
Well that does it! No more hanging around polite charming people for me. From now on I'm only going to associate with people that have demonic beady eyes and fresh blood dripping from their chin.
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God for the win!!!
There are 01 kinds of cars in the world. The General Lee, and everything else.
"not everything is a conspiracy"
That's EXACTLY what THEY want you to think!
This morning the biggest corporate criminal in modern history, Kenneth Lay, died of a massive coronary...
/duck
You just watch... I'll bet he is lying yet once again.
Stay sentient. Don't drink bad milk.
Seriously, some days I just want to punch all the cryptoloons in the balls. And if they don't have balls, I'll graft donor balls onto them and punch those.
Damn, I need more vacation.
Well that does it! No more hanging around polite charming people for me. From now on I'm only going to associate with people that have demonic beady eyes and fresh blood dripping from their chin.
Hello new friend! Wanna go throw rocks at my neighors cat?
Sweet informative mod.
"This morning the biggest corporate criminal in modern history, Kenneth Lay, died of a massive coronary before he could receive his sentence."
Now THAT is what I call a karma mod!
Posterity will ne'er survey
A nobler grave than this:
Here lie the bones of Kenneth Lay:
Stop, traveller, and piss.
Oh my god, they killed Kenny!
It's never so bad that it can't get worse.
they killed Kenny!
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
Are you implying that Republicans aren't human beings? ;)
"Two wrongs don't make a right".
``But three lefts do.''
"If anything can go wrong, it will." - Murphy
... The corpse defecates on YOU!
I can't but think he didn't die. He's getting plastic surgery done on him right now, and will assume a new identity.
They could have been planning this for the last several years. Christ, they've had enough time to think the details through...
"At least he saved us the tax dollars it would have cost to shelter and feed him."
They should engrave that on his headstone - "His last act was to actually save the country some money."
"But this one goes to 11!"
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Not as much as I admire your sarcasm... ;)
"But this one goes to 11!"
He had a heart attack because his arteries were embezzeling mass amounts of blood from his capillaries!
*badum ching*
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo!
Well that does it! No more hanging around polite charming people for me.
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That's why I hang around
Is buying a Harley Davidson as your first motorcycle since you were 16 at age 49 a midlife crisis issue?
A 20 year sentence would ahve effectively been life for a man of his age...
A negative 2 month, 6 day sentence was effectively a life sentence for him.
:wq
God called. He wants to know where his pension is.
It's all Krista's Fault.
Dude! You miss the point. That's called "trickle down economics."
Umm...
I'm not quite sure where Enron fits in there but certainly they were not the only companies messing with the market, and in the end it was the regulators' fault for allowing the market to be messed with in the first place.
LOL!
Where do the Enron Traders who were taped by the Snohomish Public Utility fit into this?
I think it's funny how you start off your argument claiming the problem was not enough deregulation, and then you end it by blaming the regulators for not regulating enough.
You sound like a Republican... can't tell the difference between his head and his ass.
Nah, wrong conspiracy theory, the real question is whether it was Cheney or Rove who ordered the hit to keep the truth from comming out.
Question is whether the lawyers got the appeal in first. In MA a convicted criminal who has a pending appeal automatically gets a pardon. That would mean that the Lay family may get to keep some of the money he stole. Although his estate is still liable for damages Texas bankruptcy law protects certain assets like the family home, no matter how many millions it is worth. The criminal fines would have wiped those out as well.
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he Ken Lay memorial urinal has a nice ring to it.
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After moving to a better hospital, his condition was upgraded to "alive".
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If you think big enough, you'll never have to do it.
No surgery necessary. He killed Tim Conway and is taking his place.
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. -- Daniel Webster