Ex-Enron CEO Skilling reports to prison

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16189124/

Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling reported to federal prison on Wednesday to begin serving his 24-year sentence for fraud and other crimes in the collapse of the former energy giant.

Skilling arrived at the low-security prison a little after 1 p.m. EST in a small silver SUV. The vehicle pulled up to the front gate, and at least four people got out. Skilling hugged a woman who arrived with him, and the entourage walked into the prison. A few minutes later, everyone except Skilling emerged and the SUV drove away.

The indentity of the woman Skilling hugged was not known.

Even if Skilling earns a few years off for good behavior and for participation in an alcohol treatment program at the Federal Correctional Institution in Waseca, Skilling, 53, will be an old man at the end of his 24-year, four-month prison term. That’s more than twice as long as the sentence of any other Enron executive.

:nopity: Merry Xmas Jeffrey



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16158276/

The site was a branch campus of the University of Minnesota until 1992, when it was shuttered in a round of cost cutbacks. City officials hoping to save much-needed jobs approached federal authorities and suggested it as a prison, and today the 80-acre facility houses 1,070 federal inmates.

Most inmates were lower-level players in the drug trade, according to Felicia Ponce, a spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons. She said Skilling likely won’t be among many other white-collar criminals.

The prison retains the low-slung brick buildings common to state college campuses, but from outside they’re obscured by two metal fences topped with coils of barbed wire. Guards in white pickup trucks slowly circle the perimeter.

“We took dormitories that had two college students per room, and put four inmates into each of them,” Tippy said. “It’s a tight fit. But it is a prison.”

Inmates have access to exercise facilities including a basketball court, running track and a ping-pong table. Most inmates are required to work in prison labor jobs such as food service, plumbing and painting, where they earn 12 to 40 cents an hour. About 200 inmates work in a prison industries sewing operation where they make exercise shorts for the military.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. This may sound strange

but perhaps the time in prison will cause him to change his ways. He will definately learn what it is like not to be rich and powerful now.

[aquart]

2. Oh, I so don't care.

His lonely journey of the soul doesn't interest me at all.

I'm damn sorry he isn't being executed for what he did.

[dysfunctional press]

4. or else he'll set up a bunch of ghost shell companies...

and end up owning every cigarette in the joint.

[aggiesal]

8. King George will pardon Jeffery before he gets impeached, ...

so that he can join his buddy, Kenny Boy wherever he disappeared to.

2 Years in prison, tops.

[dysfunctional press]

3. all inmates cells should have webcams mounted in the ceiling...

so that the general public can verify that the guilty are actually there...

and getting a shot of skilling tossing somebody's salad might be fun too.

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. So you're into watching gay rape porn?

Creepy.

[dysfunctional press]

6. not generally...

but if jefferey skilling is on the bill- i could be.

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. OK, I guess

You consider rape as a form of entertainment.

I find it perplexing, but if that's your position, at least you're honest about it. Yay, rape.

[dysfunctional press]

9. that's not at all what i said- and you know it.

whadda dimwit....:eyes:

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. Sorry...i take something like rape to be UNIVERSALLY wrong

It doesn't matter whom it happens to or under what circumstances. This distinguishes it even from killing, which could be in self-defense, or some such. You never need to rape somebody in self-defense. There are no exceptions to the rape rule that can be morally justified. So if you say that you would possibly enjoy watching one (particular) rape, I consider that as egregious as watching and enjoying any rape whatsoever. Whether it is what you said, with your stunted and confused sense of right and wrong, is of no concern to me. You would like watching (a particular) rape. Yay, rape.

[dysfunctional press]

17. whatever...

:eyes:

i guess that some people are so full of themselves, that they have a let a little crap run out every once in awhile to keep the pressure down...verbal diarrhea by any other name, i guess.

[AlwaysQuestion]

18. Rape is wrong

Sorry, QA, but I agree with your critic, rape IS wrong under any and all circumstances--no exceptions. And the very thought of watching a rape chills me to the bone--an act of hatred to be sure.

Actually, I'm not sure I like the tenor of this thread. Rooting for someone to suffer humiliation is a tad perverted. Of course I know that his crime was horrific and because of him gawd knows how many people will experience a poor, miserable retirement. Still, I just can't rejoice in someone else's misery, even when it is of their own doing. But then I don't see prison as an answer to white collar crime....if only because him serving time won't do a damn thing for the poeople he duped. I think he should have had an option: Do the time and be locked up for 24 years or work at a decent job with all proceeds going to one or two of the victims. How that would work exactly I don't know. But the victims need to be compensated somehow. Locking him up in prison just means that the tax payer will be paying for his keep which just adds insult to injury.

But that's a moot point cuz prison it's going to be. Trust me, he'll suffer enough and will be reminded daily that were it not for his abject greed he'd be a free man. I shudder even at the thought of being confined for ANY period of time. I'd rather be dead.

[dogfacedboy]

13. That kind of stuff doesn't happen where Skilling's at.

A friend of mine did a couple of years in an Illinois State prison (marajuana related). He told me that any kind of rape that occured while he was there was punishment being handed out by the street gangs when people crossed them. He told me he never had any trouble with any other inmates. Most of the people where Skilling went are there on non-violent drug charges, according to news reports.

[mike_c]

10. sounds like Skilling will have an opportunity to lean an honest trade...

...sewing running shorts for 50 cents an hour.

[dogfacedboy]

12. Cool!!

He had been given a postponement on that, but another court said, "No Way."
What an asshole.

[wakeme2008]

14. For one I am surprised he showed up and did not skip the country

things that make you go Mmmmmmm

[eppur_se_muova]

15. a-BOUT time. His lawyers have dragged this out enough. nt

[beth9999]

16. Yeah!

Another Repug in jail. One more down, only 100 million more to go.