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Ediacara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-04 10:37 AM
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Judge tells Enron's Skilling to stay sober, find work | Houston Chronicle
Judge tells Skilling to stay sober, find work
Month after fracas, ex-Enron CEO gets stiffer bond terms


By MARY FLOOD
Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle


Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling
testifies before Congress in 2002.


U.S. District Judge Frances Stacy added restrictions to Skilling's $5 million bond at the request of prosecutors.

The details of the Manhattan incident were not discussed in the 30-minute hearing. The government has previously said that after the incident, when New York police took Skilling to a hospital around 4 a.m. April 9, his blood alcohol level was 0.19 percent, more than twice the legal driving limit of 0.08 in Texas.

Prosecutors have said Skilling violated his bond by being intoxicated, trying to lift a woman's blouse in search of an FBI wiretap and attempting to steal a car's license plate outside an Manhattan cigar bar.

More at the Houston Chronicle
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-04 10:41 AM
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1. I got an idea!
Let's buy Jeff a bucket, a mop, a bottle of bleach and an 8-pack of paper towels and get him a job at a peep show!!! ;-)
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lucidmadman Donating Member (551 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-04 10:47 AM
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4. Nice!...lol...
...'you are sentenced to being a porn store janitor.' It might build some charactor in the sick bastard...
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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-04 10:44 AM
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2. Great headline! Recommend that advice to Junior.
and the rest of the BFEE
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Ediacara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-04 10:51 AM
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Funniest. Headline. Ever.
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pompano Donating Member (506 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-04 10:45 AM
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3. Those actions...
...would have damn well violated and revoked anyone else's bond.
I guess when ya got friends in high places....?
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-04 10:47 AM
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5. Do you think Skilling can handle honest work?
Just wondering.
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skooooo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-04 10:48 AM
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6. good advice for all of us
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hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-04 10:51 AM
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7. I hear Wal Mart's hiring ...
Oh, uh ... paid vacation ? Insurance ? 401k ?
No. Those are not an option.
Now go round up some carts.



:hippie:
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-04 10:57 AM
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8. Lea Fastow got one year.
How much time did Andy Fastow get?
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Hand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-04 11:20 AM
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10. Ten years...
And I think that he's required to serve them all, although many sentences are effectively reduced by half through "good time" (one day off your sentence for every day you behave yourself).
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-04 12:47 PM
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13. Listening to radio in Houston explain that every day of a Federal
sentence must be served. They were bargaining so that her sentence would be completed before his started so the children would have one parent at home while the other served. (Sorry for those children.)When will the rest of those bums be going down?
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Don_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-04 11:15 AM
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9. Skilling Had Better Volunteer
I seriously doubt that he knows the meaning or definition of "honest work."
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cliss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-04 11:44 AM
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11. This is funny!
Jeez, we needed a little humour here, after all the depressing news. The judge's ruling is so funny...."stay sober & get a job".

Doesn't that sounds like an unemployed alcoholic, rather than the CEO of a Fortune 500 Company, who pocketed probably $200 million while the company swirled in the toilet bowl?

Thanks for the laugh.
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-04 11:47 AM
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12. Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses? Let him go there!
Couldn't resist... (with apologies to Dickens...)

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