Per CNN, Enron jurists have reached a decision, to be

[babylonsister]

announced at 12noonET today. That is all.:)

[WolverineDG]

1. ACK!

You mean I have to wait 25 minutes? aaaarrrggghhhh!! :banghead:

I'm hoping & praying for guilty verdicts!

dg

[babylonsister]

2. Hey, it's better than holding your breath waiting for

a Rove indictment! You'd be very blue by now. :rofl: :hi:

[WolverineDG]

4. Actually, I'd be dead by now

:rofl:

:hi: Happy Thursday!

dg

[WestHoustonDem]

3. 14 and counting.....

:popcorn:

[WolverineDG]

5. Got any to share?

:popcorn:

dg

[WestHoustonDem]

8. Skilling guilty on 20 counts

Would you like butter on your :popcorn:?

[WolverineDG]

11. Sure!

CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES, COME ON!!!

:party:

dg

[crispini]

6. Eeeeeeeeeee!

Very exciting!

[babylonsister]

7. Fingers and toes crossed! nt

[WolverineDG]

9. THEY GOT 'EM BOTH

Skilling: Fraud & conspiracy.

Ken Lay: GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:woohoo: :bounce: :bounce: :woohoo:

dg

[txwhitedove]

18. Dancing in the Streets...

dancing in the offices, and I'm chair dancing right now.  A
good sign of hope for changes to come.  There is still justice
in the world.  

[babylonsister]

10. Lay GUILTY on ALL CHARGES!!!!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

Evidence was SO overwhelming!

[WestHoustonDem]

12. Break out the champagne!!!!!!!!!!!!

:party: :toast:

[babylonsister]

13. There will be MANY ex-employees who will be dancing

in the streets, and rightly so! :toast: :party: :thumbsup: :hi:

[Smarty Pants Liberal]

22. Well I'm bummed that I won't get to see

Linda Lay and her St. John Knits every night on the 6:00 news anymore :sarcasm:. I won't miss Jeff Skilling's pathetic attempts to look like a sad puppy dog though.

Still not ready to strike up the band. Need to see my friends who trusted Kenny Boy and Jeffrey's guarantees and placed their entire retirement on the line by investing in nothing but Enron stock recieve compensation first.

[babylonsister]

23. Can you elaborate on that retirement deal? Did employees have to

devote all their retirement funds to Enron stock? I seem to recall something like that, but it's now been so long, I'm drawing a blank on particulars.

[Smarty Pants Liberal]

24. No, it wasn't mandatory

and when I began working for Enron in the late 80's they encouraged us to divest. In the late 90's they got us all hot and bothered about how great the stock was and how we would be gazillionaires if we'd just buy, buy, buy Enron stock. Glad I didn't listen. There was a "stock ticker" in every elevator that reflected the price of Enron stock by then and it seems like that's all we ever talked about.

[WestHoustonDem]

14. Gotta love it!

The jury has reached a verdict in the criminal trials of former CEOs Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling. Judge Sim Lake's case manager, Heather Carr, confirmed the news to KHOU-TV. The verdict will be read at 11:00am in Courtroom 9B. It will be blogged here.

11News Reporter Jason Whitely is in the overflow room at the federal courthouse awaiting the reading of the verdict. He is blogging it, adding a GUILTY or NOT GUILTY to the side of each count.

Refresh your browser to update this page until all counts have a verdict out to the right.


Jeffrey K. Skilling

Count 1 (Conspiracy) GUILTY
Count 2 (Securities Fraud) GUILTY
Count 14 (Securities Fraud) GUILTY
Count 16 (Securities Fraud) GUILTY
Count 17 (Securities Fraud) GUILTY
Count 18 (Securities Fraud) GUILTY
Count 19 (Securities Fraud) GUILTY
Count 20 (Securities Fraud) GUILTY
Count 22 (Securities Fraud) GUILTY
Count 23 (Securities Fraud) GUILTY
Count 24 (Securities Fraud) GUILTY
Count 25 (Securities Fraud) GUILTY
Count 26 (Securities Fraud) GUILTY
Count 31 (False Statements to Auditors) GUILTY
Count 32 (False Statements to Auditors) GUILTY
Count 34 (False Statements to Auditors) GUILTY
Count 35 (False Statements to Auditors) GUILTY
Count 36 (False Statements to Auditors) GUILTY
Count 42 (Insider Trading) NOT GUILTY
Count 43 (Insider Trading) NOT GUILTY
Count 44 (Insider Trading) NOT GUILTY
Count 45 (Insider Trading) NOT GUILTY
Count 46 (Insider Trading) NOT GUILTY
Count 47 (Insider Trading) NOT GUILTY
Count 48 (Insider Trading) NOT GUILTY
Count 49 (Insider Trading) NOT GUILTY
Count 50 (Insider Trading) NOT GUILTY
Count 51 (Insider Trading) GUILTY

Kenneth L. Lay

Count 1 (Conspiracy) GUILTY
Count 12 (Wire Fraud) GUILTY
Count 13 (Wire Fraud) GUILTY
Count 27 (Securities Fraud) GUILTY
Count 28 (Securities Fraud) GUILTY
Count 29 (Securities Fraud) GUILTY

Count 38 (Bank Fraud) GUILTY
Count 39 (False statements to banks) GUILTY
Count 40 (False statements to banks) GUILTY
Count 41 (False statements to banks) GUILTY

[babylonsister]

15. Just heard on CNN: sentences easily could be longer than

20-30 years! :wow: :wow:

[WestHoustonDem]

16. In Federal trials, the judge decides the sentences based

on sentencing guidelines which provide for the punishment to be proportional to the damages. The damages in this case are historic.

We're going to have to build new jails just for Republicans!

[babylonsister]

17. Ain't that the truth?!

:rofl:

[WolverineDG]

19. and here's the kicker

the judge CANNOT modify/reduce the sentence no matter how hard the defense begs. Remember all those Republicans who wanted to "get tuff on crime" when that meant getting "tuff" on Hispanic & black drug dealers & acted like cry babies until the sentencing guidelines were put into effect? :evilgrin: Karmic paybacks, karmic paybacks. Oh the irony!

dg

[babylonsister]

20. Has an actual sentence been handed down yet? nt

[WolverineDG]

21. No not yet

I heard the sentence date was 9/11 on another thread though. :)

dg