Escaped justice?

[qapmoc]

I see that Ken Lay, CEO of the failed US ENRON corporation has died of a heart attack yesterday while waiting for the sentence for fraud etc.... to be anounced.

Is this escaping justice or ''Just deserts''

[noxlumos]

He's dead, what more can anyone want?

[buildersmate]

Maybe he's conjured up the John Stonehouse trick and vanished. Wouldn't put it past him and he's probably got enough resources salted away somewhere to manage such a stunt.

[mycats]

I hardly think it;s "escaping justice" OR " just deserts" the man is dead for God sake, thats a terrible thing to say

[The Big Gill]

buildersmate, I was thinking exactly the same thing.

[maxximus]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=2060103 9&refer=columnist_woolner&sid=asMgCYLNCfko apparently he is innocent. he was looking at life, what if he decided to tell the real story. slobadan milosevic, coincidence, or just two old dead guys? but buildersmate just might be onto something, powerful crowd this guy hung with.

[EuanC]

buldersmate & the big gill - that makes 3 of us thinking that way then.

[taff1949]

he fiddled a few quid, hardly makes him the mad axe murderer,get over it

[taff1949]

one for builders mate.and the other conspiracy theorists, do you think myra hindley is really dead or is it the only way that the gov could have let her out considering the depth of public feeling. and dont underestimate princess tone after all he,s emptied ajail full of convicted murderers before

[maxximus]

he also cost almost everyone that worked there their life savings and their retirement nest eggs, a little more serious taft.

[maxximus]

and now that he is apparantley innocent these people have no recourse for compensation, so what happens to all the loot?

[taff1949]

ma ximus i agree i was a bit flippant but my point was that it was a financial crime and there was no call to deride the mans death

[maxximus]

point well taken.

[The Big Gill]

Conspiracy theorists, eh? Perhaps its cases like that of Ernest Saunders (the only man in medical history to recover from Alzheimer's disease) that make me cynical.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Saunders

[taff1949]

the big gill all very interesting, but what has that to do with the question i asked

[The Big Gill]

Look up Emile Savundra and Robert Maxwell, too.

[buildersmate]

Those who have managed to misappropriate resources to their own advantage seem to have an uncanny knack of vanishing in mysterious circumstances / finding reasons why they can't serve the prescribed spell in the nick. Maybe this is yet another case - that's all some of us are saying.