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9/15/11 AFTER LESS THAN FIVE YEARS IN PRISON Skilling files for Supreme Court review The Supreme Court ruled that the instructions concerning a conspiracy charge given to the jury in Skilling's trial were not appropriate based on the honest services fraud theory, which revolves around an executive of a company breaking trust defined as "the intangible right of honest services."

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Amnesty for Corporate Crooks How Skilling Might Walk (Video)

"What the Supreme Court has done is basically prohibit federal prosecutors from using their most common technique for prosecuting white collar crime. And the first ... benificiary ... is Jeff Skilling." -Jeffery Toobin, CNN Legal Analyst

Fraud Field Day: U.S. court ruling erodes corruption cases

Appeals Court Tosses Some Fraud Counts Against Schools Chief:A federal appeals court has reversed the conviction of a former Maryland school district chief for "honest-services fraud," but upheld counts involving evidence and witness tampering and obstruction of justice. Hornsby was in a romantic relationship with a saleswoman for the contractor, LeapFrog SchoolHouse, and was charged with steering the $956,000 contract to her and later covering up e-mails and other evidence. The high court said the statute was largely confined to fraudulent schemes involving bribes and kickbacks, and did not cover conflicts of interest.

Fraud convictions overturned for Philly assessor and developer: A U.S. District Court judge's decision to overturn the conviction of a former Philadelphia tax assessor who accepted $20,000 in cash is the latest fallout from a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that has undermined many public corruption cases. Former assessor James Lynch accepted money in an envelope after he'd helped a businessman get a lower tax bill. Since there was no evidence he'd asked for the cash, he wasn't charged under bribery laws. [Ed. - Emphasis Added]

Corrupt Republican Politicians Benefiting from SCOTUS Decision: Former State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno could be facing a new corruption trial. The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals threw out Bruno's 2009 fraud conviction Wednesday, November 16th. The Republican had originally been accused of abusing his power by accepting millions of dollars in contracts from companies that worked with the state. [ read more... ]

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1,470 of the Nation's Wealthiest Citizens
Pay Zero in Taxes.

• 1,470 of the Nation's Wealthiest Citizens Pay Zero in Taxes
• 9 Things The Rich Don't Want You To Know About Taxes
• Millionaires Don't Pay Taxes? 1,470 of America's Richest Didn't, According to IRS

Surprised? You Shouldn't Be.

They own this place. You're just renting.

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KEN LAY SIGHTINGS!

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Coups, Revolutions, and Enron: The Egypt Connection

The Power Elite: Enron and Frank Wisner

Frank Wisner: US Envoy's Business Link to Egypt

"On 28 October 1997, Enron Corporation announced the entry of Frank G. Wisner Jr. onto its board of directors. His lineage is impeccable, since his father, Frank Wisner Sr., was a senior CIA official (from 1947 until his suicide in 1965) who was involved in the overthrow of Arbenz of Guatemala (1954) and Mossadeq of Iran (1953)."

More Ken Lay content below, but first...

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The economy is awful, taxes on the wealthy are too high, and everyone is hurting, right?

Yeah, right... In this world, economic pain is just for the little guy.

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The Wisconsin Uprising

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There is a War Going On.

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01/19/09 - SHOCKING NEW PHOTO! CT snapped this photo at Epcot Center in Orlando. The resemblance is striking, is it not?!

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You Call This Justice???

Former Enron Chief Executive Jeff Skilling has been moved to a low-security prison in Colorado because the Minnesota prison where he started his 24-year sentence in 2006 is being turned into an all-women’s facility. Skilling attorney Daniel Petrocelli said he visited his client this week at the Federal Correctional Institution-Englewood in the Denver suburb of Littleton. Skilling is awaiting a decision from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans on the appeal of his 2006 conviction on 19 counts of conspiracy, fraud, lying to auditors and insider trading. “He’s doing remarkably well given the impossible circumstances he finds himself in,” Petrocelli said. “All his hopes rest on this appeal.”

Thursday, Aug 7, 2008

Almost seven years after the energy giant Enron collapsed, a series of court decisions have opened the door to new trials for some of the convicted corporate executives and threatened to hobble the Justice Department’s efforts to pursue future corporate-fraud cases.

It is almost as hard to punish a white collar criminal as it is to fill up your gas tank these days!


Feb. 25, 2008

Lawyers for former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling and the government will soon face off once again as his side argues to erase his convictions while prosecutors seek to maintain them.

Extra Plus: A little info about the "jail" Skilling is being held at: Click HERE

Extra Extra Plus: The Blog of an insane woman who is droolingly in love with Jeff Skilling. You know, those women who write love letters to Jeffrey Dahmer and Scott Peterson, she has whatever mental illness they have: Click HERE
Jan. 22, 2008

The Supreme Court today refused to hear a last appeal from Enron investors to punish banks they allege colluded with the energy company to cook its books.


August 15, 2007

Investors seeking redress from third parties accused of aiding companies to defraud shareholders suffered a blow on Wednesday when the Bush administration came down against the plaintiffs' bar and in favour of companies in a landmark case heading to the Supreme Court.

The development is also a blow for Enron investors who have sued the defunct energy company's bankers - including Merrill Lynch, Barclays and Credit Suisse – for allegedly helping Enron executives carry out the accounting fraud that eventually destroyed the company.



Ruling Rankles Enron Workers, Investors
By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 18, 2006; Page D01


A federal judge in Houston yesterday wiped away the fraud and conspiracy conviction of Kenneth L. Lay, the Enron Corp. founder who died of heart disease in July, bowing to decades of legal precedent but frustrating government attempts to seize nearly $44 million from his family.

The ruling worried employees and investors who lost billions of dollars when the Houston energy-trading company filed for bankruptcy protection in December 2001. It also came more than a week after Congress recessed for the November elections without acting on a last-ditch Justice Department proposal that would have changed the law to allow prosecutors to seize millions of dollars in investments and other assets that Lay controlled.



The Judge: http://www.chron.com/content/news/photos/02/10/21/players/photo21.html

Apparently if he had only waited a week to make the following ruling, congress would have passed legislation which would allow criminal proceedings to go on after a "death"!

Prosecutors asked Lake to defer a ruling on the erasure request until October 23, 2006, the date Lay was to be sentenced, so as to give time for Congress to pass new legislation that would preserve convictions despite a defendant’s death. In this week’s filing, Lay lawyer Samuel Buffone is seeking to expedite Lake’s ruling on the grounds that Congress adjourned last Saturday with neither introduction nor passage of any such bills. If Lake approves the request, the government would be unable to seize ill-gotten cash and property through the criminal case, and would instead be forced to build a forfeiture case in civil courts.

Background and Related Documents

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Background: (From Bloomberg News, July 5th, 2006) Enron's Founder Kenneth Lay, 64, Dies in Colorado (Update9) July 5 (Bloomberg) -- Kenneth Lay, who built Enron Corp. into the world's largest energy trader and was convicted of the fraud that led to its collapse, died today near Aspen, Colorado. He was 64. ``Ken Lay passed away early this morning,'' his spokeswoman Kelly Kimberly said in a statement. ``The Lays have a very large family with whom we need to communicate. Out of respect for them we are not releasing any more information at this time.'' Lay's defense lawyer Mike Ramsey said through a spokeswoman that his client died ``from what appears to have been a heart attack.'' Lay and his successor as Enron's chief executive officer, Jeffrey Skilling, 52, were convicted May 25 of spearheading the fraud that plunged Enron into bankruptcy in December 2001. Lay and Skilling were scheduled to be sentenced in October. Lay, who was also convicted of bank fraud, was facing the rest of his life in federal prison. Ill-Gotten Gains Lay's death will complicate the government's bid to recover Lay's any ill-gotten gains, said David Irwin, a former federal prosecutor who is now a white-collar defense attorney in Towson, Maryland. Lay testified at trial that he was broke, Irwin said. The government has said that it believes he still had more than $40 million left. ``Prior to his death, the government could just say: `Hand over $40 million,''' Irwin said. ``Prosecutors are now going to have to show that individual assets they want to seize were bought with funds illegally received from Enron. It's going to be a lot more work for them now.'' The government will have to go after Mr. Lay's estate to see if there's anything recoverable, Irwin said. Shareholders with lawsuits against Lay face the same challenge, he said. ``The shareholders will still try to get a judgment against Mr. Lay's estate and then track down assets to enforce the judgment,'' he said.

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