I wonder what kind of prison sentence Jeff Skilling will get

[bluestateguy]

Or will he just get a few years at Danbury Federal Summer Camp?

Hopefully he will get a life sentence at a real prison, a maximum security facility and he'll get a big, sexually starved cellmate. I wish the feds could send him to Joe Arpaio's tent city prison in Maricopa County, Arizona.

And then, of course, he could get a pardon on Baby Bush's way out the White House door in January, 2009.

[liberal N proud]

1. They will probably end up getting a new trial on appeal

Then with Kenny boy gone, they will have to dismiss because they don't have crucial evidence that would exonerate him with out Kenny Lay.

I doubt he will ever serve a day!

[Ganja Ninja]

4. With Kenny boy gone his appeal strategy will be to put the blame

on the dead guy. After all Skilling left the company before the shit hit the fan.

[Warpy]

2. He will undoubtedly get a much shorter sentence than the judge

gives him due to a pardon in January, 2009.

Either that, or he'll be out very early due to good behaviour, let out as soon as it can be done quietly, after the public has been pushed onto some other set of scandals to occupy their outrage.

In any case, he will enjoy a comfortable retirement offshore, having followed his stashed money, and will die in bed of extreme old age.

[wakeme2008]

3. He will be living in some nice country outside the US

Remember with Ken "dead", there will be no pardon from Bush...

IMHO, if Ken is alive, Skilling will know it, and will not want to be the last man out.

[Poll_Blind]

5. I dunno but now, more than ever, I hope they make Lay his cell-mate!

:evilgrin:

PB

[NV Whino]

6. Maybe they can tack Kenny Boy's time onto his

Shame to let all that good time go to waste.

[Bridget Burke]

7. Twenty five years is the best estimate I've heard.

From the Houston Chronicle: The judge is expected to base their sentences — expected to be 25 years or longer — largely on losses tied to their crimes.

Petrocelli chastised the Enron Task Force for the maneuver. "The Task Force has asked the court to strip Jeff of everything he owns and leave him without any means to meet family obligations or satisfy substantial debts for his legal defense," he said. "Their position disregards that Jeff was acquitted on nine of the 10 insider trading counts and is wrong and unfair."

www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/enron/4016912.html

This article discusses the money the Feds hoped to confiscate from Skilling & Lay. But not from Lay's estate--now. The government will have to get in line with the others who've filed civil suits.

Another Chronicle article said that they would probably to to a "medium security" facility. No link to that article here--the Chronicle has done a LOT of coverage. They don't sound much like country clubs.

www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/index.jsp

PS: I don't think that rape is a laughing matter.

[warrens]

8. Danbury ain't a summer camp

But yeah, 20 years in that tent prison sounds mo betta.

The National Lampoon had a skit on their radio show about the Watergate criminals, a mock coming attractions for a new movie, "Prison Farm." Watch men endure the brutal "hotbox." (VO) Ow, this steam is too hot. I'm going for a dip in the pool! Watch desperate men plan their escape. (VO) Alright, men, we're going OVER THE HEDGE! (VO) Not in THESE slacks I'm not! Prison Farm. Where the nation's most desirable criminals serve months of hard middle management!

I think, in fairness, he should serve Kennyboy's time too.