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    Default Enron execs found guilty

    http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/25/news...ex.htm?cnn=yes

    Lay and Skilling found guilty of conspiracy and fraud. Here's hoping they spend the rest of their lives in a 8x4 cell with Bubba (although we know that's not going to happen).

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    This is one of those times when I wish we could bring back the old fashioned stocks and pillories and lock these two in the town square for a couple of days. Have everyone who lost their savings because of these executives greed get a chance to throw rotten tomatoes (or worse).

    Also shows that while the American legal system may be slow, it generally gets it right in the end.
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    I wonder how tall they are. (female judges )


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    Slow wasn’t that like two or three years ago
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    And, both still proclaim their innocents. Hope the judge gives 'em the max and sends them to Quentin or AtticA and not one of the glorified whitecolor vacation resorts.

    Imagine cashing in your stocks while telling your employees to buy! The Dicks.
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    Can anyone think of a reason this guy didn’t leave the country?

    I wouldn’t have done what he did in the first place but had I, I would have been gone!
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    Quote Originally Posted by yesdachi
    Can anyone think of a reason this guy didn’t leave the country?

    I wouldn’t have done what he did in the first place but had I, I would have been gone!
    Ya, what the hell? He could have bought a nice chunk of Africa/Central/South America and lived by the beach.


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    Maybe he's not too smart.
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    Arrogance is more like it.
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    The money was just resting in their accounts...
    It was not theirs to reason why,
    It was not theirs to make reply,
    It was theirs but to do or die.
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    Why do such a Thing and leave the Money resting in your Account?? My God, I would buy a nice island,small force to protect me,and that be the end of it..

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    I'de be glad to take that money off his hands.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Csar
    I'de be glad to take that money off his hands.
    I think the Enron employees get first dibs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BHCWarman88
    Why do such a Thing and leave the Money resting in your Account?? My God, I would buy a nice island,small force to protect me,and that be the end of it..
    It's from Father Ted. Ted is sent to the Island because, as he says, the money was just resting in his account.
    It was not theirs to reason why,
    It was not theirs to make reply,
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    Arrogance? Not. Coming soon ... 2008 ... Presidential Pardon. Bet on it. Bush owes them.
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