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July 6, 2006
WB: Death of a Salesman
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Hermann Göring died before being convicted. Then Milosevic dies awaiting sentencing. Then Lay dies before serving time. Do we detect a patern here?
Posted by: ralphieboy | Jul 6 2006 8:23 utc | 1
Wayne Madsen offers some interesting information on some of Enron’s Saudi-linked financial maneuvers. Madsen’s information
seems too detailed to be “just made up out of whole cloth”. It would be interesting to know just who is dishing out this dirt. Since it links
Lay’s Enron with Saudi potentates, it’s not difficult to conjecture the presence of silent partners from other dynasties.
Of course, the machinations described may be mere fairy tales. In particular, to judge the technical and economic plausibility of the $10B pipeline deal is beyond my competence, so I would welcome deeper analysis by more informed Moonies.
Posted by: Hannah K. O’Luthon | Jul 6 2006 9:42 utc | 2
Then there is this interesting Reuters article about the first edits to wikopedia claiming that it was a suicide.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060705/wr_nm/enron_lay_wikipedia_dc_2
there are other rumors and even reasons why he would fake his death.
Posted by: Jesus Reyes | Jul 6 2006 9:50 utc | 3
Billmon: at the moment, the link under the Death of a Salesman excerpt points to the same URL as the Mother Jones link. (I’ve made this kind of mistake a lot–where I cut+paste something and then don’t finish editing it as I’d meant to.)
There might be a lot of people who benefitted from Lay being permanently silenced. This doesn’t prove anything, of course.
Posted by: mistah charley | Jul 6 2006 17:37 utc | 5
Do you think that Bush will try to attend his funeral incognito?
Posted by: ralphieboy | Jul 6 2006 19:08 utc | 6
In yet another bizarre twist to the Enron saga, the sudden death of Kenneth L. Lay on Wednesday may have spared his survivors financial ruin. Mr. Lay’s death effectively voids the guilty verdict against him, temporarily thwarting the federal government’s efforts to seize his remaining real estate and financial assets, legal experts say.
The civil lawsuits against Mr. Lay may continue with efforts to seize his remaining assets, but even those moves may be complicated by his death since technically there was no conviction of Mr. Lay in the criminal case to rely upon as proof.
“Jeff Skilling is quite literally the last man standing in the Enron scandal,” said Robert A. Mintz, a former federal prosecutor…
Posted by: PeeDee | Jul 6 2006 21:32 utc | 7