Ken Lay was finally indicted, although we don't know what the charges are yet...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&u=/ap/20040707/ap_on_bi_ge/enron_lay_6

They were supposedly having a hard time coming up with proof that he knew what was going on. Obviously he did, but proving it is tough. They may not have proof now, but politically speaking you certainly can't let him get off without trying him for something.

For literally ruining the lives of many many investors and stockholders, he definitely deserves a good punishment just like all the other leaders of the company. They're all getting their just desserts, he deserves his own.

i agree with l.hutz. i think that they know the public is crying out for some justice, but these guys are smart, they hide in plain sight. and they know how to get around or cover their tracks. this is gonna be hard to prove......but i commend them for going after SOMEONE !

This is no more than bush coming to realize he will lose in november. They need to get lay indicted before bush leaves the white house so he can pardon him. No nixon-Ford references please.

Meanwhile it also serves to get everyone's eyes off the kerry-edwards announcement and the Der Spiegel release of the transcripts of americans raping children in the Iraqi prisons.

Kenny boy knew he would be sacrificed -- he just didn't know when.

Dop

SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT DOP !

As you already know -- Bush recently lawyered-up and he chose James Sharp.

Fast forward and Ken Lay lawyers up -- yup James Sharp.

ROTFLMAO these people claim not to know each other.

I hear rove is super pissed at lay for getting sharp and bringing this attention to the obvious chummy relationship between lay and bush when they're both on record as saying they don't know each otherl.

OK, there's an outside chance this could happen by coincidence but you have to be pretty gullible or just brain dead to go for it.

Dop

I was thinking more of the clinton/mark rich pardon myself

That's old news trav -- too late in the game to blame it on the Clenis.

Dop

umm, I am not blaming anybody but the guy who did it. he should go away for life. I was mearly pointing out that a president pardoning another president is not the right analogy, clinton pardoning mark rich is closer to what would happen. anyway, with all your great conspiracy theory powers how come you cant see that bush pardoning lay would be political suicide. come on dop.

Based on Martha's sentence of 5 months -- extrapolated over the crimes of Kenny Boy -- his sentence should be 148,000 years.

Dop

your right, he should go to jail and throw away the key, but these types never do. dont blame it on bush either, because this has been going on forever.

Trav, I agree (did I really say that? -- LOL)

Bush gets a pass on this one from me even if (when) he pardons him. Unfortunately that's how the game is played.

Dop

holy crap! close this thread and pin it, dop and I agree!

Maybe now we can also get that dasterdly Bobby Fisher and toss him in the can alongside Martha, Tommy and Leona (wait -- she's out now).

They picked him up in Japan today.

So what's the penalty for going to Yougoslavia while they were under sanctions? (10 years ago) I mean like is it death or are we talking 5 months like Martha?

Dop