There's these two guys on trial. Ever heard of 'em?

[Gabi Hayes]

Names are Skilling and Lay, I think.....

[blm]

1. Sh.... Dan Abrams and Greta Van Susteren have Natalee Holloway's aunt on

for only the 100th time.

[spanone]

3. Both are an embarassment to their professions.

[dogday]

2. Skilling is testifying this week

Said there were no problems that he was aware of at Enron....

All I can think about is the poor people here in Houston that lost their jobs and savings because of the greed of these men... They are selling us all down the river......

[spanone]

4. Don't forget the investors of which I was one. All lost. Poof! Gone!

[dogday]

6. Sorry to hear that

Yes, Investors as well, anyone that was affected and there were many.... I can't believe they have held this trial off for almost 5 years....

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

13. They used your investment to paint Jeff's parachute gold.

See, your money served a purpose after all. :D

[dogday]

14. You know I told my husband something

like that the other day.. I said kids were starving while the rich sat on their gold toilets.....

[Neil Lisst]

5. I never thought it coincidence that the Enron and Moussoui trials

happened at the same time.

[Gabi Hayes]

7. it really is stunning that this is going on under almost complete

darkness. the only reason I remembered, after hearing a little on the radio last week about Skilling's absolute ignorance defense, was that there was a short bit on BBC News a few minutes ago

I've seen not one WORD on US TV. not that I watch network news, but nothing on cable. contrast this with the wall to wall Martha Stewart coverage

how many people lost their jobs and life's savings because of her, btw?

[Neil Lisst]

8. I wonder how much of this sabre rattling is aimed at keeping Enron

buried.

There's only so many stories that can go, and they have a pecking order. They run all this 9/11 stuff and witnesses as a way to create a daily feed of info for news.

Meanwhile, the testimony from Enron isn't exciting or interesting. Either he was involved or he wasn't.

I don't know how much Rove has stirred up to keep Enron a low coverage story, but some of it has to be from him.

[dogday]

10. Remember when Martha Stewart had her trial???

They could not get enough cameras around her... News 24/7.....

[Neil Lisst]

15. she was charged with lying to investigators

and the insider profit she made wrongly was about 60K

Talk about a lack of perspective.

Martha Stewart, Lil Kim, Tommy Chong.

Meanwhile, where's Ken Lay, and Dick Cheney?

[linazelle]

9. Very good catch. n/t

[Neil Lisst]

12. both prosecuting attorneys answer to Alberto "the waterboard" Gonzales

and he's a Bush errand boy

[Gabi Hayes]

11. gee...here's a surprise...he can't REMEMBER stuff!

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/steffy/3788478.html




Stale PR
Skilling, though, said he never discussed lying or doing anything illegal with any of them. His testimony has been long on stale Enron PR and short on explanations for how the company imploded without his knowledge. In fact, much of the past two days, Skilling has confronted some of the most damaging evidence against him with a simple denial: "No." Did he lie? "No." Did he tell others to lie? "No." Was the LJM partnership an Enron puppet? "No." Is he consumed by greed? "No."


Those troublesome lapses
Where the flat-out denials stop, the memory lapses begin. He doesn't recall telling subordinates that earnings numbers had to beat Wall Street estimates, despite witnesses who said he did.

Most amazingly, he said he didn't remember calling his broker on Sept. 6, 2001, to place a sell order for 200,000 shares of Enron stock. Yet in this very trial, the jury has heard the testimony of the broker, whose recollection is quite clear, as well as tapes of the actual phone conversations. The call pertains to the insider trading charges against him, but it conflicts with his earlier testimony to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Skilling told the SEC that he sold an even larger amount of Enron stock on Sept. 17 because he was distraught over the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

..............

huh?????

seems to me, this kind of baldfaced horsetwaddle would make for FABULOUS TV, woudln't it?

is even Court TV covering this?