GOP Corporate Elitists Found Guilty in Rare Trial

A federal jury today convicted former Enron Corp. top executives Jeffrey K. Skilling and Kenneth L. Lay of multiple fraud charges, writing a powerful coda to the government’s four-year-old push to hold executives accountable for wrongdoing on their watch.

Skilling, 52, and Lay, 64, once stood near the pinnacle of American business, as the energy trading powerhouse they created out of a stodgy pipeline company grew to become the nation’s seventh-largest public company. But their fortunes collapsed in a heap along with the business when it declared bankruptcy in December 2001.

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This will launch many civil suits now guilt is established to try to recover some for the hidden billions.

And will Bush pardon them? Interesting thought, if they appeal (said they will) they still may be in litigation when Juniors term is up.