Skilling's lawyers worry Houston sees Enron executives as 'evil' (venue?)

[UpInArms]

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2890218

Ex-Enron Chief Executive Officer Jeff Skilling today asked a federal judge to move his trial from Houston because of the prejudice against him here and the personal, emotional and economic stake this community has in Enron's fortunes.

Skilling's co-defendant Rick Causey, former Chief Accounting Officer, joined in the request.

Ex-Chairman Ken Lay has yet to file his papers on this issue. Lay had previously said he did not want the trial moved, but that was when he'd hoped his case would immediately go to trial.

Skilling, who had previously said he would ask the case be moved, hired five experts to examine the publicity about Enron, the community's economic interest in the outcome of the trial and other factors. His lawyers filed a box full of reports and exhibits with U.S. District Judge Sim Lake today.

They showed that Houston-area survey respondents were about three times more likely to use negative words when asked about Skilling than people in three other major cities tested.

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guess Kenny-Boy doesn't want to face the community that he looted and pillaged :eyes:

[aden_nak]

1. Skilling's lawyers worry Houston sees the truth.

[otohara]

2. Move It To California

where they looted and pillaged Californian's...

[frylock]

4. put gramma millie on that jury

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Piss on him.... take a look at what Enron did in India... it's war on

poor people everywhere these bastards tread I swear. Just be fortunate enough to not be in their way.... and that is not always possible, in fact, it's hardly ever possible.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0120-03.htm
>>And in taking on Enron, whose Dabhol Power Corporation produced one of the biggest corruption scandals in Indian history, she showed that she was not afraid of standing up to the might of international big business backed by international power politics.

The story of Enron's involvement in India is one of double-dealing, corruption, violence and violation of human rights. It began in 1993 when the company signed a deal to provide much-needed electricity in a state that was desperate for power to fuel its new high-tech industries and to propel the country on its new free-market economy.<<

[UpInArms]

6. here's a fun commentary piece

http://www.samachar.com/features/210102-fpj.html

excerpt:

Enron, Argentina, India - it is the same story of deceit, chicanery and downright criminality.Enron was obviously being run by a bunch of tricksters with links right up to the White House, which specialises in political chicanery.In the case of Argentina, it is the same thing. As regards India, I am prepared to give our boys the benefit of doubt, but not all of them.I can expect one finance minister being fooled, maybe even two, but three in a row! They have not been fooled. They are actually fooling us, using exotic economic phraseology - current account deficit, disinflation, comparative advantage etc - to pull the wool over our eyes.

It is essentially a question of credibility.How do we know that what we are told is really true? How do we know that GDP growth this year will be 5 per cent, when it can be revised to 4 per cent or 6 per cent tomorrow to suit our planners? How do we know that GDP growth was really 7 per cent five years ago?

Last year, Enron Corporation had a turnover of $110 billion, which, believe it nor not, is more than the GDP of most developing countries.Next year, its turnover will be zero, because the company is bankrupt and has no money to hire even a doorkeeper.Yet not a single shareholder of Enron was told that the company was in trouble.The chairman of the company is a friend of President Bush and is said to have contributed over 100,000 dollars to his election funds

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[aquart]

7. Now you know why they HAVE to keep the White House.

Criminals, every one.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

11. Another winner. Imagine if this was common knowledge... n/t

[TheIdiot]

23. Now it is! n/f

[barb162]

5. skilling probably guilty, but Ken Lay is definitely guilty

I wonder what is taking so long to go after Lay, it has been about 4 years now. Take all their money and redistribute it to the ex-employees first.

[smirkymonkey]

8. Got news for you, Skilling...

EVERYONE (excluding the current Administration) sees Enron executives as evil.

Burn in hell :grr:

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. And poppy Bush is shocked, shocked! that the free world hates

his son. Unfarking believable.

[0007]

10. My My, let's move the trial to California, I'm more than sure

California will not be influenced by emotions or personal prejudices. After all California went down with Her light off, as compared to the Titanic which went down with her light on.

Skilling does indeed deserve the best.

[Dover]

12. I don't know that there is a place in the country that would provide

a different result. So where ya gonna go, Skilling?

[MountainLaurel]

13. Precisely

My mom in WV lost more than half of her retirement fund -- she worked for a power company that was trying to emulate Enron's "innovation and speculation." My uncle in FL was losing $33K a month from his financial investments (the result of a claim payout for a workplace injury that left him paralyzed for life).

[havocmom]

14. He can run but he cannot hide

That's the price one pays for screwing so many millions of people.

[RaleighNCDUer]

15. Move it to California -- it was the Enron manipulation that brought

on the California energy crisis, leading to the * coup in the first place.

Yeah. Move it to California.

[SoCalDem]

19. and Ahhhhnold can buy him lunch

They were probably BOTH at the Cheney energy meeting in MARCH ...well before the "recall".. hmmmm now why on earth would they "need" to invite a "muscle-man action-figure" movie star to sit in on an energy meeting that would go on to nearly bankrupt the state... and lo and behold, the HERO riding to the "rescue" is ....Ahhhhhhnold...

[BrotherBuzz]

16. I hear we have liberal courts in California....

Bring 'em on!

[Bridget Burke]

17. Today's Houston Chronicle, Front Page....

Former Enron CEO Jeff Skiling wants his trial moved out of Houston because one-third of area residents polled associated his name with negatives like "pig," "snake," "economic terrorist" and the "financial equivalent of an ax murderer.

The story is online but the Bush-endorsing Chronicle has now instituted a sign-on policy & I'm not in the mood...

http://www.chron.com

(copied from the duplicate locked thread)

[leesa]

18. Bring it to California, man. We LOVE Enron! And your puppet Arnie

will take care of you, I'm sure.

[Buns_of_Fire]

20. No, no, Jeff! Bring it HERE!!!

...he smiles, while patiently putting 13 loops in the noose... :evilgrin:

(Perhaps he'd be more comfortable if the trial were held in the West Wing...?)

[booksenkatz]

21. Change the venue to a very poor, very religious area

Those folks love the rich criminals, and would do everything in their power to set them free to continue with their trickling-down work that creates jobs. 'N stuff.

[Hand]

22. This just in!

Skilling's lawyers worry Pope may be Catholic!

:evilgrin: