Drayton to testify on behalf of Ken Lay (obviously non-BB)

[Bench]

"As character witnesses, Mr. Lay's lead attorney is prepared to call many former Enron employees and Texas business luminaries, including a former secretary of commerce  and the owner of Houston's baseball team . They will try to persuade jurors that Mr. Lay was simply too good a man to be caught up in fraud at Enron."

The Link

Not exactly breaking news or at all relevant, but I hadn't seen it posted here and I guess it's interesting enough for early February.

At least the Coogs had an exciting extra-inning win yesterday.

[geezerdonk]

Quote:
"As character witnesses, Mr. Lay's lead attorney is prepared to call many former Enron employees and Texas business luminaries, including a former secretary of commerce  and the owner of Houston's baseball team . They will try to persuade jurors that Mr. Lay was simply too good a man to be caught up in fraud at Enron."

Is there someone by the name of Clayton Vernon on that list?

[jasonact]

Quote:
"They will try to persuade jurors that Mr. Lay was simply too good a man to be caught up in fraud at Enron."

Oh yeah, because we all know that "good" people can't do evil, evil things. Ridiculous.

[Lefty]

Quote:

Quote:
"They will try to persuade jurors that Mr. Lay was simply too good a man to be caught up in fraud at Enron."

Oh yeah, because we all know that "good" people can't do evil, evil things. Ridiculous.

And "evil" people can do good things.  It's obvious that, in much of his civic dealings, Ken Lay was a "good guy".  It's also pretty obvious that, in much of his business dealings, Ken Lay was an unscrupulous bastard.

It's a criminal trial, his legal representation is obligated to put forth the best defense it can.  Thus, you paint Lay in the light they're attempting to.  Nothing "ridiculous" about it, but I'd imagine the jury will see it for what it is.

I just wish Drayton, and thus the Stros, weren't a part of this.

[Golden Sombrero]

Dang, I was at that Roadrunner/Coog game and had to leave early (I believe after the 4th), so I missed all the fireworks.  That'll learn me--never leave a ballgame early.

[Golden Sombrero]

Quote:
...and the owner of Houston's baseball team . ...

I wonder why they wrote it this way.  I guess the NYT figures that none of their readers would know that Houston's team is called the Astros.  That, or they didn't want to get it wrong and add yet another line to their "Corrections" page.  You'd think they'd know our name after that combined no-hitter against the Yanks.

[BudGirl]

Quote:
That'll learn me--never leave a ballgame early.

Duh.

[Golden Sombrero]

I had class!!  What does it matter, I'm an awful student anyway.  I might as well have enjoyed the game.

[Limey]

Quote:
Oh yeah, because we all know that "good" people can't do evil, evil things. Ridiculous.

And "evil" people can do good things.  It's obvious that, in much of his civic dealings, Ken Lay was a "good guy".  It's also pretty obvious that, in much of his business dealings, Ken Lay was an unscrupulous bastard.

It's a criminal trial, his legal representation is obligated to put forth the best defense it can.  Thus, you paint Lay in the light they're attempting to.  Nothing "ridiculous" about it, but I'd imagine the jury will see it for what it is.

I just wish Drayton, and thus the Stros, weren't a part of this.


Lay & Skilling are either guilty of the fraud or guilty of dereliction of duty to stockholders (or any combination thereof).  Either way they should be looking at jail time and hefty fines.

I think a lot of people wish they'd never heard of Enron.

[Frobie]

Not that it means anything, and everyone else probably knows this already, but I just read in the Daily Cougar the other day that Ken Lay has a Ph.D. in economics from UH.

Eek.

[HudsonHawk]

Quote:
Not that it means anything, and everyone else probably knows this already, but I just read in the Daily Cougar the other day that Ken Lay has a Ph.D. in economics from UH.

Eek.

That don't mean squat.  The biggest idiot I ever knew has a PhD in astrophysics from MIT.  Dumb bastard couldn't think his way out of any empty room.

[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

Quote:

Quote:
Oh yeah, because we all know that "good" people can't do evil, evil things. Ridiculous.

And "evil" people can do good things.  It's obvious that, in much of his civic dealings, Ken Lay was a "good guy".  It's also pretty obvious that, in much of his business dealings, Ken Lay was an unscrupulous bastard.

It's a criminal trial, his legal representation is obligated to put forth the best defense it can.  Thus, you paint Lay in the light they're attempting to.  Nothing "ridiculous" about it, but I'd imagine the jury will see it for what it is.

I just wish Drayton, and thus the Stros, weren't a part of this.

Lay & Skilling are either guilty of the fraud or guilty of dereliction of duty to stockholders (or any combination thereof).  Either way they should be looking at jail time and hefty fines.

I think a lot of people wish they'd never heard of Enron.



I always had the impression that Skilling knew what kind of hole was being dug, then Lay came along and said "Wow, that's a deep hole." Then not fully understanding the meaning of damage control, Lay said, "Since it's too deep to get out of, let's dig deeper and see where it goes."