Ken Lay of Enron Dies of Heart Attack

[ChileMass]

Amazing - he actually HAD a heart after all.

It's really too bad this lying, thieving corporate dirtball didn't have the opportunity to rot in jail for years and be the ongoing cautionary posterboy for bigwigs everywhere who are tempted to cook the books and ruin shareholders' investments. I guess Bernie Ebbers from Worldcom and the Rigas from Adelphia (father and son!!) will have to do instead.

http://news.yahoo.com/fc/business/enron

 

[thetrailboss]

He got out of it easily. He should have lived to see what the pain and suffering he created. I just read his bio--son of a preacher, PhD and BS from University of Missouri, Navy Vet. How can somone with such credentials and background become so corrupt?

 

[ctenidae]

Power corrupts. Absolute power is interesting.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy, though. For my part, I'm glad we won't have to support his stay in a federal country club.

 

[SkiDog]

Power corrupts. Absolute power is interesting.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy, though. For my part, I'm glad we won't have to support his stay in a federal country club.

Mee too...my tax dollars are better spent elsewhere...

M

 

[riverc0il]

Power corrupts. Absolute power is interesting.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy, though. For my part, I'm glad we won't have to support his stay in a federal country club.

i would gladly have paid tax dollars to see this guy rot. probably would only cost an extra one or two cents per american to keep him miserablly alive and locked up for the rest of his life. there are very few people i have no compasion for whether they are criminal or not. this guy is less than dirt to me. too bad he could not have lived with it longer is my opinion.

 

[thetrailboss]

i would gladly have paid tax dollars to see this guy rot. probably would only cost an extra one or two cents per american to keep him miserablly alive and locked up for the rest of his life. there are very few people i have no compasion for whether they are criminal or not. this guy is less than dirt to me. too bad he could not have lived with it longer is my opinion.

He would not have been miserable....and he would have had a larger retirement than many of us will earn in a lifetime. I'm not sure how this is justice. :roll:

 

[knuckledragger]

To bad he supossedly spent all his money on his defense. The people he screwed should have a chance at whats left of his estate.

 

[riverc0il]

He would not have been miserable....and he would have had a larger retirement than many of us will earn in a lifetime. I'm not sure how this is justice. :roll:

living life in prison would be misery to me. i'd rather die of a heart attack than live my life in priison. so perhaps i am measuring justice by my own measure of what misery is. i think giving someone the death penalty is giving them the easy way out over life in prison, but that's just the way i look at life.

 

[ChileMass]

living life in prison would be misery to me. i'd rather die of a heart attack than live my life in priison. so perhaps i am measuring justice by my own measure of what misery is. i think giving someone the death penalty is giving them the easy way out over life in prison, but that's just the way i look at life.

I'm with you on this one, Steven. This is one bastard that should have rotted in jail for years to think about the people he ruined with his greed. Screw him. He got the easy way out with a heart attack.

Spicy Conspiracy Theory Angle!!!: Wouldn't surprise me at all if it came out that he had someone inject him with something to bring on the heart attack. Being locked in jail, even if it's a minimum-security, "country-club" jail for white collar criminals, would still be terrible for a guy like him. Opting out with a heart attack is much easier.

 

[thetrailboss]

I'm with you on this one, Steven. This is one bastard that should have rotted in jail for years to think about the people he ruined with his greed. Screw him. He got the easy way out with a heart attack.

Spicy Conspiracy Theory Angle!!!: Wouldn't surprise me at all if it came out that he had someone inject him with something to bring on the heart attack. Being locked in jail, even if it's a minimum-security, "country-club" jail for white collar criminals, would still be terrible for a guy like him. Opting out with a heart attack is much easier.

My conspiracy angle was that he paid someone to "stage" his death while he flew to some remote island getaway that he now owned....

 

[ctenidae]

The CIA, under orders from Cheney, spirited him away to Cheney's secret hunting preserve. Man- the most dangerous animal...

 

[ChileMass]

My conspiracy angle was that he paid someone to "stage" his death while he flew to some remote island getaway that he now owned....

True - that's even better........he probably still had enough of his stolen dough to pull it off, the prick......

 

[ctenidae]

Interestingly, prosecutors are now thinking they may have to throw out the fraud conviction, since he can't be sentenced now. So, aside from the whole being dead thing, he may get out of the whole Enron deal scott free.

 

[riverc0il]

Interestingly, prosecutors are now thinking they may have to throw out the fraud conviction, since he can't be sentenced now. So, aside from the whole being dead thing, he may get out of the whole Enron deal scott free.

yea, i just heard this today. this is pathetic. time to break out the :uzi:

i wonder if people hurt by this man's selfishness can sue his estate in a civil suit for damages?

 

[thetrailboss]

i wonder if people hurt by this man's selfishness can sue his estate in a civil suit for damages?

Yes. There would likely be a claim. I'm sure he figured out a way to hide/"lose" his money though so that nobody could get their hands on it.

 

[ctenidae]

wonder if people hurt by this man's selfishness can sue his estate in a civil suit for damages?

I would be very surprised if there weren't already thousands of lawyers lining up to take that case.

 

[catskills]

Anybody in Aspen know the location of where his ashes will be buried? I bet his ashes don't stay in the ground very long unless they have a 7x24 hour guard around them. As for the head stone that won't last either. Ken Lay is probably the most hated man in America right now. Folks are going to recoup their loses any way they can.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - The body of Enron Corp. founder Ken Lay will be cremated and his ashes buried in Aspen, Colorado where he died this week of an apparent heart attack, a newspaper reported on Friday.