Considering the lives he destroyed, it was the best possible result. He gambled with people’s financial futures, he held entire states ransom, and lost with a fall so great it killed him. Or so we are told.
Convicted Enron Corp. founder Ken Lay, who was found guilty of helping perpetuate one of the most sprawling business frauds in U.S. history, has died of a massive coronary. He was 64.
Nicknamed “Kenny Boy” by President Bush, Lay led Enron’s meteoric rise from a staid natural gas pipeline company formed by a 1985 merger to an energy and trading conglomerate that reached No. 7 on the Fortune 500 in 2000 and claimed $101 billion in annual revenues.
Question: is he really dead, or is something weird going on? Was there any foul play? This is just too convenient. The report says his heart “just gave out.” What does that mean? I think this should be thoroughly investigated.
This all seems to convenient, and is probably a cover for him to flee the country.
James,
I agree. Rich boys don’t die or get jailed… Especially presidential buds! Instead, they go to Mexico!
Is it just a coincidence that the initials of this blog are “D.U.”?
You had the world by the balls for years and was suddenly facing the rest of your life in jail, you would drop dead too. No conspiricy here, just poetic justice.
He’s with Elvis now…
He is the first Bush croney who was going to go to jail, that wasn’t going to happen, Georgy can’t affort for any of the illegal activities he has been invovled in (domestic spying, conspiracy against the american people, anti-trust involvement with OPEC) to have more light shed on them. Kenny Boy is the first Captain to be taken out, yes, this is more of a mob organization than an administration. And I’m a conservative!
The White House will probably set him up in the same place they have “safe-housed” Osama bin Laden for the past few years…
…AKA – Cheney’s undisclosed location
Great headline.
I blame the liberal media.
All of the crap going on with ENRON and WorldCon and a few others occured durring the CLINTON administration.
Can you imagine the stress this guy was been under? It’s not surprising to me he had a fatal coronary. My mother died of a heart attack at age 65, her first. Many people only don’t live through the first one.
I highly doubt there’s a link to Dubbya or Clinton: That card would have been played long before now. That being said, thanks for the liberal bullshit.
Besides, he doesn’t need anyone to pull this off. He has enough money to do it on his own.
The question becomes “Why wasn’t he in jail pending sentencing?” Would you be allow to be on your own after getting convicted of what he was convicted with?
Enron and other corporate scandals may have happened during Clintons administration. However, Clinton was not the recepient of the millions in campaign contributions.
Funny how “Kenny Boy” was “W’s” biggest contributor, loaned him his corp. jet, got Christmas gifts from Gov. Bush, then when Lay is accused of fraud. Bush states,”I hardly know the man”.
Is Lay still alive, probably not. Did he die of “natural” causes, probably not. This line of thinking is no farther out of line than the “Bill and Hilary hit list” that was being shouted about on Fox News.
See how unfair life is; this bastard should have suffered immensely before just dropping dead.
I shall also make note that Timothy McVay is also alive and well. Government protects their own, I am sad to say. Makes me wonder if Alex Jones is right about all this stuff…
#16 You really should get a life.
Key TWILIGHT ZONE theme.
Really, guys, are you so filled with venom that you have to write tripe like this over someone who’s dead? I mean, granted, he screwed a lot of people. BUT HE”S DEAD.
And you should be ABOVE all that.
#9…..you’re right, it sure did…..and the kicker….it was the Bush administration that convicted him.
Sorry Alix…..I seriously doubt if Mr. Lay thought it was *convenient*
Let’s see… Lay is (un)mysteriously dead, while Kerry, Plame, WIlson, Moore, Krugman, Dowd, Streisand, Soros, Gore, the Clintons et al are still alive.
Nice try, moonbats.
#6 – WTF?
#20 – Touche’!
I’m actually disappointed that Lay won’t be living the rest of his dispicable life in a 10×10 cell. A heart attack seems too easy an out for such miserable scum!
None of those people you mentioned have any reason to disappear.
I must admit I started this as a simple gloating piece, but we expanded it to address the obvious issue of Lay’s wanting to disappear.
What was the name of that mystery where all kinds of people kept showing up at a man’s funeral to stick pins into him to make sure he was dead?
ADDED: #6, that also brings up the possiblility of humpty dumpty being pushed. Dead men don’t turn state’s evidence to reduce prison time.
in other news: Kenny Boy named new President of Mexico!
that’d be hil-freakin-larious
I think he’s dead. Why would he need to disappear? All it did was save Bush from having the embarrassment of having to pardon him. Let’s see what happens with Skilling.
he totally pulled a jack bauer and disappeared….
@24
Too bad the left has no evidence of this being considered, much less a possibility. Spout your liberal bullshit somewhere else.
@ 22
You could have picked another word than ‘convenient’, but lifting from my posts does make you sound more intelligent. 😉
@ All
I do get a kick out of people who won’t even consider that this is a way for Ken to take off for a warmer climate (and I don’t mean hell). I also find it funny that so many people have ignored the millions Lay gave to charity (before Enron). If anything, this story is proof that people can’t handle something with layers; it always has to be cut and dry.
That’s why him dying is such a great cover. For the untrained mind he was evil and deserved to die. There is no question from his death: It was meant to happen.
Sad.
Postumous Medal of Freedom?
My favorite Ken Lay or Ken Lay related moment was when I saw his wife on Headline news bitching that “now we can’t build our new vacation home”, after he resigned.
You have to wonder about current assets, and who stands to gain if there is foul play, by or agenst Ley. Though there is the motive to not want to spend a cent on incarcerating this guy.
In February 2000, Mother Jones has learned, the Lays paid about $4 million — an amount greater than Lay’s entire salary from Enron that year — to buy variable annuities that will, starting in 2007, guarantee the couple an annual income of about $900,000. While stocks and most other ordinary investments are open to attack by creditors, life insurance policies and annuities are protected in many states. Variable annuities of the sort purchased by the Lays are basically tax-deferred investments wrapped in insurance policies. Ken Ley’s Nest Egg by Bill Hogan “MotherJones” February 21, 2002
Ken Ley, AKA Kenny Crooked
Think this guy has street cred to get a new identity?
also see:
Prosecutors Seek Assets Of Two Enron Chiefs – By Carrie Johnson – Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, July 1, 2006; Page D01
Could this turn into an episode of Matlock?
Did Ley finally get the clue that he was really cought ?
I wonder if Drug maker Lilly offered him an out in exchange for their stock back? (they really don’t want the Govt holding their stock)
If Ley is not dead maybe GW has him down in Crawford playing “The most dangerous game,” DC style.
“You made us all look bad boy, and the only reason your still running is cause they didn’t tie in SBC as well, you better get a move on while we refill and reload.”
You people are some cold MF’s.
You people are some cold MF’s.
Thanks,
You made my day. 🙂