Former Enron CEO arrested in Dallas

[Judi Lynn]

Sept. 21, 2006, 1:19AM
Former Enron CEO arrested in Dallas

© 2006 The Associated Press

HOUSTON — Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling was ticketed for public intoxication earlier this month in Dallas, according to a newspaper report.

Skilling, convicted in May of 19 counts of fraud, conspiracy, insider trading and lying to auditors in the investigation following the company's 2001 collapse, was arrested about 1:45 a.m. Sept. 9, according to a report in Wednesday's online edition of the Houston Chronicle.

The police report said Skilling was not drinking at the time of his arrest, and he did not resist officers, the newspaper said. He was in the swanky Uptown neighborhood north of downtown Dallas; Skilling was staying at a nearby town house he owns.

Public intoxication is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $500. He received a $385 ticket and was briefly detained in a city jail.
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4203233.html



Not Skilling. Mug shot not available yet.

[Judi Lynn]

1. Does anyone remember an earlier story on Skilling?

This is from an MSNBC article:

In April 2004, Skilling was involved in a scuffle with patrons of a cigar bar in New York City. He wasn’t arrested, but he and his wife, Rebecca, who was hurt in the incident, were taken to a hospital where a blood test showed Skilling’s blood-alcohol level to be .019. Witnesses said Skilling accused some of the cigar bar patrons of being FBI agents.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14933555/

[bananas]

2. Damn, I thought it was Ken Lay

I figured he got drunk and revealed his real identity.

[krispos42]

3. Ken Lay died July 5th of this year

Shortly after being convicted but before being sentenced. If I put on my tinfoil hat, I would note that he died at a very convenient time, because he passed before sentencing, which means the guilty verdicts were abated, i.e., treated as if he had never been indicted and convicted. Which will play hell with the civil suits of people trying to get their retirement savings back.

My tinfoil hat is also telling me that Lay was cremated shortly after death, so there is no corpse to exhume if closer examination is requested.

Finally, my tinfoil hat tells me that all of the connections Lay had with various and sundry components of the Bush Administration in both Texas and in DC are now one step closer to being buried forever.

But that's just my tinfoil hat talking.

[hippiechick]

4. Died, in reference to Ken Lay, should be in quotation marks.

;)

[krispos42]

5. "Heart Failure"

I read somewhere that every single form of death is, at it's core, "heart failure". Hmmmmm...