Wednesday, July 19, 2006

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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