Guns Don't Kill People. People Kill People.

"A body found in north-east London has been identified as that of a banker who was questioned by the FBI about the Enron fraud case. Police said they were treating the death in Chingford of Neil Coulbeck, who worked for the Royal Bank of Scotland until 2004, as "unexplained"."
[BBC]

"Coulbeck joins convicted Enron kingpin Ken Lay and U.S. Export-Import Bank chief (and Cheney crony) Phlip Merrill on the roster of convenient deaths related to the U.S.-Enron collapse. Lay's involvement with Enron's crimes is well known. Less documented is the deep criminal involvement of the U.S. Export-Import bank -- a little-understood federal agency that shovels billions to "foreign" companies and governments to encourage exports of American goods and services. In reality, the Ex-Im bank mostly hands taxpayer money to American corporations with foreign operations such as Enron, which took some $800 million from Ex-Im between the two Bush presidencies.
[Sploid]

"A coroner in Texas has ruled that Clifford Baxter, a former senior executive of the bankrupt US energy giant Enron, committed suicide."
[BBC]

"According to a police source, Skilling was running up to people in bars and on the street, pulling open their clothes, and claiming that they were undercover FBI agents. The source said police took Skilling to a hospital for observation and he was not charged with a crime. Skilling is facing 35 federal counts including fraud, insider trading and other crimes in the collapse of Enron."
[Capital News 9]

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Whip City

Nothing really starts your day off right as does a big picture of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie on the front page of your local paper. And to find that Whip City itself is the center of attention, well...lemme tell you.

According to TMZ, "...the FBI and Massachusetts authorities raided a Westfield, Mass. home Tuesday night and seized photos of a baby shower held by Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt."

But according to the local paper here, "The FBI somehow got left out of all the fun. Michael G. O'Reilly, supervisor of the FBI's Western Massachusetts office, said yesterday his agency had not been involved, as did Enfield Police Chief Carl J. Sferrazza."

No matter. For those of you not familiar with this very important case, it goes like this. Jolie's brother took the offending photos. His camera was broken so he brought it back to Best Buy so that they could fix it. Best Buy sent the camera, with the memory stick still in place, to Precision Camera and Video repair in Enfield Conn. Why you might ask did the Best Buy in LA send the camera, literally, all the way across the country? Well, actually, your guess is as good as mine, though the store does claim online to be the largest camera repair facility in North America, and they do repair warranty repair for all the major camera manufactures.

Again according to TMZ, "...two employees at Precision, Bill Keyes and Adam Beckwith, discovered the pictures in the digital camera. We're told that Keyes told authorities that Beckwith downloaded the photos."

Keyes than floated a balloon out to Celebrity Baby Blog and others, attempting to ascertain the value of his sweet find.

But somebody dropped on a dime on him, and that's when the authorities in LA contacted the authorities out here, and a search warrant was served on Keyes home. The photos now sit safely in the Wesfield Police Department, awaiting a safe return to their rightful owners. I imagine they will be escorted back to Jolie on Air Force one itself.

[TMZ: Police Raids Over Jolie-Pitt Baby Shower]