Nickname: Hospitaller

Review: Big mistake to base your defense on assuming that jurors are stupid. Lay and Skilling claimed that they didn't know about all the crooks at Enron (but they never claimed they were dumb when they were picking up big bonuses). And they claimed that the company was sound, but the government and media wrecked it. These two positions are mutually exclusive, and, anywhere, sound companies don't suddenly go kaput and collapse in a puff of smoke. Lay and Skilling thought jurors would believe this nonsense. For all the millions they paid their lawyers, they got really rotten advice. Serves them right. Now they know what it is like to be on the receiving end.

Date reviewed: May 29, 2006 6:16 AM

Nickname: hdancer

Review: To Bobo: I nearly fell on the floor when I read your idiotic comments. To say that the CEO of a company has the same insight into his company's finaces as holders of a joint bank account is completely ludicrous! Have you ever heard of the phrase fiscal responsibility? Why do you think he gets paid millions of dollars if not to carefully oversee the finances of his company. If you have a joint bank account with you wife and you're not paying better attention, your next post will be coming from the poor house.

Date reviewed: May 28, 2006 5:08 PM

Nickname: Bill

Review: The lesson? Beware of those who tell you too much of what you love to hear. Keep your own finger on the pulse of your investments. Don't trust anyone with your spouse or your money. And remember what your momma told you, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket," especially those saved for a rainy day.

Date reviewed: May 28, 2006 4:24 AM

Nickname: mapsy

Review: Yes, a jury of peers. If you actually think I can't be Ken Lay's "peer" because I don't make millions of dollars or command a large company, then you're so wrong in so many ways that I don't know where to start with you. You're part of the problem instead of the solution. Grow up.

Date reviewed: May 26, 2006 5:52 PM

Nickname: Marie

Review: Now that Enron has been emphatically dealt with, when will the Tenet Corp. and its executives be brought to justice?

Date reviewed: May 26, 2006 5:43 PM

Nickname: candide

Review: Lay, Skilling, Bush and Cheney--jail is too good for them. They should be dropped over Iraq without parachutes.

Date reviewed: May 26, 2006 3:33 PM

Nickname: alank44

Review: This rat will end up with 90 days and five years probation. His buddy Bush will make sure of that.

Date reviewed: May 26, 2006 12:27 PM

Nickname: Max

Review: What jury of peers? As a top exec, you get paid in millions of dollars to be in control. It is your responsibility to know what is happening. If you can't figure that out, then you do not deserve to be there and should get out instead of commanding a salary in the millions.

Date reviewed: May 26, 2006 9:13 AM

Nickname: Vojda

Review: Skilling should not have been spared the charges of insider trading. These were the only real charges with the only real hard evidence.

Date reviewed: May 26, 2006 6:30 AM

Nickname: Alice Schmid

Review: Lake is going to be under some pressure to confer sentences that are not too over-the-top, as he has been recently over-turned. Weighing heavily though, from the other side, will be outraged average Joes who will be watching closely to see if Kenny-Boy and Skilling go to a country club prison. Enron and its downfall is the quintessential story of class warfare. I'd like to see an article about what happens now, when and where would they go to prison, what will it be like, how long will it last, what is to become of the evil Linda Lay (ie will she reopen the second-hand clothing store? I now truly understand "Schadenfreude"!

Date reviewed: May 25, 2006 11:01 PM