Prosecution gets insider’s help in Enron case

Those still hoping to see more of the Enron crooks held accountable had to be encouraged by the guilty plea entered by Richard Causey, the company’s former top accountant. With someone so knowledgeable about what went wrong having switched sides, the challenge of defending former chairman Ken Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling against fraud and conspiracy charges now becomes a lot tougher.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

6 Comments

  1. Gittin' madder by the minute
    Posted January 3, 2006 at 9:39 am | Permalink

    One down, and Lay and Skilling to go. I can hardly wait.And off topic, I see they finally got Abramoff the sleeze. Gonna be some big shots fall on this one. Mostly Republicans (giggle). Might also be the hammer to nail the Hammer. We can hope.

  2. ProudLiberal
    Posted January 3, 2006 at 10:29 am | Permalink

    Where are the Bush boot-licks now? How quiet they become on the fraud encouraged by no federal oversight of the god-like ‘free-market.’

    Meanwhile, Friend of Bush “Kenny Boy” Lay continues to enjoy his ill-gotten wealth. Too bad about the widows and orphans who lost everything . . . they believed in “free enterprise” too.

    Justice delayed is justice denied.

  3. Ben Huie
    Posted January 3, 2006 at 10:48 am | Permalink

    And Abramoff today – WONDERFUL!!!!!

  4. "Rage
    Posted January 3, 2006 at 11:45 am | Permalink

    I’ve generally avoided commenting on the indictments, plea-bargains etc., as I keep the whole presumption-of-innocence thing in mind.

    That said, I must admit I’ve been waiting quite a while to see the cracks show up in the Bush fortress of silence. . . Commenting on the Soviet Union in the early 1980’s, I.F. Stone once made a materials analogy: “It’s a rigid structure, and rigid structures crack.”

  5. Todd
    Posted January 3, 2006 at 7:17 pm | Permalink

    I wonder if Bush will manage to get himself impeached like Bubba did.

  6. ProudLiberal
    Posted January 3, 2006 at 9:57 pm | Permalink

    t Odd,

    Clinton “managed” to get himself impeached after an eight year witch hunt that cost you and me 40 million dollars.

    How many guilty verdicts were handed down in that abortion of justice?

    Oh yeah, now I remember, exactly zero.