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Enron Trial Verdict
Just heard the jury has reached a verdict in the Ken Lay / Jeff Skilling Enron trial. Veridict will be read at 11:00 Central Time.
Guilty (verdict) or not?
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05-25-2006, 09:38 AM
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Re: Enron Trial Verdict
They were in charge of the company for a number of years - no matter whether they knew it or not* 
they are guilty
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05-25-2006, 09:50 AM
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Re: Enron Trial Verdict
I'm guessing a couple of charges to stick, the rest not guilty. These complex white collar cases usually confound jurors.
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05-25-2006, 09:57 AM
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Re: Enron Trial Verdict
I'm saying guilty... but then I missed the OJ verdict...
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05-25-2006, 10:06 AM
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Re: Enron Trial Verdict
CNN:
Lay- guilty on all charges.
Skilling - guilty on at least 35 charges...
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05-25-2006, 10:13 AM
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Re: Enron Trial Verdict
Nice!
It was either find them guilty of the criminal charges, or guilty of massive stupidity while getting rich, which technically isnt a crime, but...
As part of the sentence, ever enron shareholder and every company employee should get to slap them each once across the face. 
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05-25-2006, 10:15 AM
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Re: Enron Trial Verdict
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Originally Posted by Cute Fuzzy Bunny
As part of the sentence, ever enron shareholder and every company employee should get to slap them each once across the face. |
How about they let just 2-3 lucky shareholders each beat them half to death? 
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05-25-2006, 10:18 AM
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Re: Enron Trial Verdict
Isnt that a joke?
Something about getting three wishes, only someone else thats not well liked gets twice as much. "Make me rich, make me beautiful, beat me half to death" ?
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05-25-2006, 10:22 AM
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Re: Enron Trial Verdict
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How about they let just 2-3 lucky shareholders each beat them half to death? |
So if two got lucky, they would be 75% dead, and if three, 87.5% dead? :
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05-25-2006, 11:28 AM
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Re: Enron Trial Verdict
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How about they let just 2-3 lucky shareholders each beat them half to death?* |
I hear the tickets will be auctioned using Enron's advanced energy-trading system with its EBS bandwidth... the good news is that they'll apparently cost no money yet be worth millions!
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05-25-2006, 01:56 PM
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Re: Enron Trial Verdict
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As part of the sentence, ever enron shareholder and every company employee should get to slap them each once across the face.
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That's a lot of people since it was in the sp 500 index. Do partial shares just get to do a "bitch slap" 
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05-25-2006, 01:58 PM
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Re: Enron Trial Verdict
No beating necessary. Just send them to a Federal Pound-Me-In-The-Ass Penitentiary.
Meet your new husband cell-mate.
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05-25-2006, 02:09 PM
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Re: Enron Trial Verdict
...and I was just about to post a comment that we at least hadn't descended to juvenile "pound me in the ass" type jokes.... 
(Making fun of homosexual rape... how liberal and enlightened.....)
Ah well, different strokes for different folks.....
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05-25-2006, 02:11 PM
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Re: Enron Trial Verdict
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Ah well, different strokes for different folks.....
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Hur, hur, hur. He said "strokes."
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05-25-2006, 02:12 PM
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Re: Enron Trial Verdict
Oh, I should have put a few winky smileys in there...
...I wasn't being entirely serious!
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05-25-2006, 04:04 PM
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Re: Enron Trial Verdict
Yes, this is your new cell-mate, Mr. Lay.
Make your own joke.
Here's your other cell-mate, Mr. De-Lay.
Once, again, make your own joke.
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05-25-2006, 05:39 PM
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Re: Enron Trial Verdict
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Yes, this is your new cell-mate, Mr. Lay.
Make your own joke.
Here's your other cell-mate, Mr. De-Lay.
Once, again, make your own joke.
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05-25-2006, 06:08 PM
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Re: Enron Trial Verdict
I read "The Smartest Guys in the Room" a few months ago and learned a good deal about Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling (Yes his brother is the weatherman on WGN in Chicago) and their antics. These were brillient men who lost track of what a dollar was worth and how hard-work, not schemes, are the backbone of our capitalistic society.
If they both die behind bars, it will not be unjust.
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05-25-2006, 06:09 PM
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Re: Enron Trial Verdict
No beatings, no cell mates, no jail. Just restitution till they reach destitution :
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05-25-2006, 06:41 PM
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Re: Enron Trial Verdict
COWABUNGA!
I got the news at work. By sheer accident, tuned in to Yahoo just seconds after it was posted. Everyone I polled loved it. (I didn't poll managers. :P )
I love it!
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