Reply #5: Here's the link that says otherwise... [View All]

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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/biz/4122689.html

Motion for Lay to be opposed
Government still wants assets based on verdict

By JOHN C. ROPER
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

The government plans to fight to keep the conviction of the late Ken Lay in place, saying it will oppose a motion filed Wednesday by the former Enron executive's lawyers to have his criminal record erased.

The request by Samuel Buffone, a lawyer representing Lay's estate, has been expected since shortly after Lay's death and, if approved by the judge, would make it as if the former Enron chairman had never been charged with a crime.

Buffone asked U.S. District Judge Sim Lake in the motion that he vacate and dismiss "the indictment as it relates to him upon his recent death and resulting inability to pursue his planned appeal."<snip> a bit more.