Former Enron CEO taken to hospital

[Champ]

NEW YORK - Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling was taken to a Manhattan hospital early Friday after several people called police saying he was pulling on their clothes and accusing them of being FBI agents, a police source told The Associated Press.

Police found Skilling at 4 a.m. at the corner of Park Avenue and East 73rd Street and determined he might be an “emotionally disturbed person,” said the source, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity.

Police did not charge Skilling with a crime. They took him to New York Presbyterian Hospital for observation. Hospital officials would only say that Skilling had been discharged from the hospital on Friday.

Messages left for Skilling’s lawyers, Bruce Hiler and Dan Petrocelli, were not immediately returned.

Skilling was at two bars in Manhattan — American Trash and The Voodoo Lounge — where he allegedly ran up to patrons and pulled open their clothes, the source said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4703493/

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Coke binge? Insanity play? Drugged by the BFEE?

Inquiring minds want to know!

[u2spirit]

2. Tax Season

I bet he just found out he wasn't getting a 900,000 dollar tax return this year

[johnfunk]

3. Jeffrey Skilling: ENRON's Vincent "The Chin" Gigante

Doesn't anyone else suspect this could be some Actors'-Studio-style laying of the groundwork for a "not guilty by reason of mental defect" strategy? I'm reminded of the brilliant mobster "Vin the Chin" who used to wander around his Greenwich Villagfe neighborhood in a bathrobe and slippers muttering to himself.

[markses]

4. DUPE-O-RAMA

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x476040

;-)

[Champ]

5. whoops sorry

I thought it might've been. :hi: