Sunday, July 09, 2006

Ken Lay's Final slap-in-the-face

With the apparent death of Ken Lay, former demon-child behind Enron, the Pandora's Box of what is lawsuit-worthy is opened again. While ordered to shell up nearly all the profits he had bamboozled from his employed, Lay's heart attack conveniently occurred before he had a chance to file a legitimate appeal. Because of this, his lawyers will push for the original ruling to be thrown out, so none of those who were denied pension and 401k's will see a dime of money they worked they're whole lives for. Now, I say "apparent" death because that's all the faith I give to the media and the government. The President was known to have good contacts with Enron CEO's, and I doubt that faking a man's death would be overly complicated for the President. Also, when Bush appeared on Larry King Live last week on his 60th birthday, Larry asked him about Lay and Bush was mostly speechless. I don't want to say suspiciously speechless, but it was. He said nothing of the usual eulogizing speech associate with the death of a friend, and seemed overly uncomfortable fielding questions about him. Did anyone else see this interview?

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