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Kenneth Lay, former Enron chairman, died this morning of a heart attack.
I hate to sound coldly skeptical, but this thing looks fishy from the get-go. There’s been no hint of ill health from Lay during the unfolding Enron scandal and his subsequent trial. Now, when he’s been convicted and awaiting final sentencing in October, he checks out? Not to mention that such death announcements typically aren’t made public until much later than the actual passing — often as much as a day later.
If I’m the Feds, I’m paying close attention to the passenger logs for all outbound flights to Mexico and points south. I wouldn’t put it past any member of the Enron gang to hightail it in order to avoid what’s sure to be a heinous prison term.
In the case of Lay, I understand he was especially dismayed by his guilty verdict — he wasn’t expecting to be busted by a jury in Houston, where he was once such a community darling. Faking a death to wriggle out of the consequences is a predictably desperate maneuver.
Let’s see how this unfolds…
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Lay Me Down
Bloggers are reacting to the death of Enron baddie Ken Lay and fretting about North Korea’s missile tests…
Costa Tsiokos at general interest media blog Population Statistic can’t handle the banal truth: “I hate to sound coldly skeptical, but …..
Trackback by SLATE: Today's Blogs — 07/05/2006 @ 04:50:39 PM
Ken Lay Avoids Prison Time
Early this morning Aspen endured its second celebrity death in a little over a year. The first, of gonzo writer Hunter S. Thompson, was clearly a suicide. Today’s death, of former Enron CEO and convicted felon Kenneth Lay was the result not of self-d…
Trackback by New West Network — 07/05/2006 @ 09:55:38 PM
I heard the news on the radio and the very first thing I thought was “That son of a bitch faked his death, didn’t he?”
At least I have the comfort of knowing I wasn’t the only one with this idea.
Comment by CGHill — 07/05/2006 @ 10:07:10 PM
see here
the man had a history of heart trouble.
Comment by K — 07/06/2006 @ 01:39:31 AM
K: No… That CBS news article you cited is referring to WorldCom’s Bernie Ebbers:
Lay’s mentioned later in the article, at the start of the Enron trial. But no mention of any health problems for him.
Comment by CT — 07/06/2006 @ 07:55:42 AM
It’s the Fed’s who spirited Ken Lay away to prevent him from implicating “W”. Lay was ready to spill the beans if Bush didn’t pardon him before his prison term was to start.
The Judge in Texas, who let him go to Aspen twice and the coroner in Grand Junction, CO are in on it as well.
Comment by Steve G — 07/06/2006 @ 09:44:50 AM
Ken Lay lives!
Well, maybe not. Then again: I hate to sound coldly skeptical, but this thing looks fishy from the get-go. Theres been no hint of ill health from Lay during the…
Trackback by dustbury.com — 07/06/2006 @ 12:30:05 PM
SHAME ON ME FOR THINKING THIS SOUNDS MIGHTY FISHY! OR MAYBE I WATCH TOO MANY TV SHOWS WHERE THE CROOK HAS FAKED HIS OWN DEATH. MONEY CAN BUY LOTS OF THINGS!!!
Comment by KC_MOMOF4BOYS — 07/06/2006 @ 01:22:05 PM
Well, if Ken Lay did actually die, I would bet that it was a suicide. The idea that he could’ve faked his own death and left the country is equally plausible. Will we, the American public, ever actually know the answer?
Comment by The Caped Composer — 07/06/2006 @ 01:24:22 PM
SCREAM AND THE POWER OF CHOCOLATE
You couldn’t have scripted it better. Only a couple of days after a two-million M&Ms dark chocolate reward was offered for the recovery of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”, Norweigan police find the stolen painting (along with…
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