EnronEmail.com Serves Up Juicy Messages

[mandy]

OK, Enron wasn't a dot com but it was a bust which is close enough for this forum 

Just in time for the start of the high-profile trial of former Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling comes EnronEmail.com.

The new Web site features some 514,000 e-mails sent to and from 176 company employees from 2000 to 2002. Originally released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), EnronEmail.com is set up to allow easy access to all the e-mails, searchable by a number of different search criteria. The trials of Lay and Skilling open on January 30.

There's also a blog at the site where visitors can post comments, as well as contests to identify the most outrageous e-mails in three categories: I'd fire him (or her); Enron's funniest jokes; and what were they thinking?

full article: http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/art...hp/3579066

EnronEmail.com web site: http://www.enronemail.com/

[regic]

Free registration required to read the emails. 

[bargainbloodhound]

The trial is over and the EnronEmail web site is gone.  

This news just in:

Lay and Skilling's day of reckoning
Enron ex-CEO and founder convicted on fraud and conspiracy charges; sentencing slated for September...

Skilling was found guilty on 19 counts of conspiracy, fraud, false statements and insider trading. He was found not guilty on nine counts of insider trading.

Lay was found guilty on all six counts of conspiracy and fraud. In a separate bench trial, Judge Sim Lake ruled Lay was guilty of four counts of fraud and false statements.

Both Lay and Skilling could face 20 to 30 years in prison, legal experts say.

article: http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/25/news/new...tm?cnn=yes

[Kristijntje]

Enron Corp. founder and former Chief Executive Ken Lay, who was convicted in May for his role in the Houston-based company's downfall, died after suffering a heart attack on Wednesday at his vacation home in Colorado.

"Ken Lay passed away early this morning in Aspen," Lay family spokeswoman Kelly Kimberly said statement.

Lay, 64, was awaiting sentencing later this year and was expected to face decades in prison for his convictions in the Enron collapse.

full article; http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060705/bs_n...n_lay_dc_7

[landofsmiles]

Don't let the kindly old face fool you. This was a man who ruined the financial security of thousands of lives. Some people committed suicide over the trauma of losing their entire life's savings. Others lost their health and/or families over it. All due to those greedy bastards who felt that their opulence was more important than people's retirements that they had worked hard for all their lives.

Edited to add: This was supposed to go in the dead guy's thread. Don't know how it ended up in this one. I must have screwed up.

[rose]

The first thought that came to mind when I read the headline was "he probably faked his death to avoid prison".

[maryrussel]

[quote author=rose link=topic=2332.msg17114#msg17114 date=1152129059]
The first thought that came to mind when I read the headline was "he probably faked his death to avoid prison".
[/quote]

My first thought was that he committed suicide.

[xppman]

My first thought was will Meg suffer the same fate? 

[stardust]

[quote author=maryrussel link=topic=2332.msg17116#msg17116 date=1152130337]
[quote author=rose link=topic=2332.msg17114#msg17114 date=1152129059]
The first thought that came to mind when I read the headline was "he probably faked his death to avoid prison".
[/quote]

My first thought was that he committed suicide.
[/quote]

Either way, he and his family payed the ultimate price.

[xppman]

It's that whole KARMA thing  :