Well that's...convenient

[ebonlock]

odogoddess just sent me this:

Enron founder Ken Lay dead of heart attack

By Matt Daily

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Enron Corp. founder Ken Lay died of a heart attack on Wednesday, six weeks after being found guilty of fraud in one of the biggest corporate scandals in U.S. history.

Lay, 64, was awaiting sentencing later this year and was expected to face decades in prison for his fraud and conspiracy convictions in the Enron collapse.

"Ken Lay passed away early this morning," Lay family spokeswoman Kelly Kimberly said in a statement.

Lay and another former Enron CEO, Jeffrey Skilling, were found guilty of hiding the financial ruin at Enron, the company they built into the seventh largest in the United States. Enron plunged into bankruptcy in December 2001.

Lay, once a confidant of former President George H.W. Bush and dubbed "Kenny boy" by President George W. Bush, often appeared fatigued during the four-month trial, but there was no indication that he had suffered any adverse health effects.

Given the number of lives he gleefully ruined with his avarice and general lack of human decency I can't say I'll be shedding any tears.

Comments

[tattermuffin.livejournal.com]

I'm not entirely sure I believe he's dead actually. If this country can run a witness protection program, I have no doubt it could run a "give him a quiet life out of the spotlight and out of jail" program headed up by his buddies in the White House.

I mean I hate to sound like I think everything's a conspiracy when it comes to this administration, but then again if it barks like a dog and looks like a dog ... well ok it could be a parrot wearing a dog costume, but most likely it's a dog.

[scoreboard.livejournal.com]

I concur. I'm sure I'm stealing this line from somewhere, but if there's one thing I really truly hate, it's the way this administration is turning me into some sort of moonbat tinfoil-lined conspiracy theorist of the sort I spent decades heaping abuse on.

I will now light myself on fire.

[senatorhatty.livejournal.com]

if there's one thing I really truly hate, it's the way this administration is turning me into some sort of moonbat tinfoil-lined conspiracy theorist

I said something like this just this morning, when the first thought that popped into my head was "they killed him so he wouldn't squeal in order to get some kind of lighter sentence."

Unfortunately, the "relocation" scenario better appeals to my sense of how fucked up this administration is, so that's the one I will undoubtedly find myself espousing when I am foaming at the mouth about something.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

You know my brain went in a slightly different direction, I wonder if Kenny Boy didn't off himself to avoid the Big House...

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

*I* think Bill Clinton killed him.