General Discussion

My late brother worked for Enron. He lost a lot....especially since so much of what he had was in Enron stock. He had worked for Enron before they were even Enron (They were called Houston Natural Gas) immediately upon graduation from University of TX when he was only 26. My brother and most of the other employees knew nothing about what was happening. He had to sell his house and move into a garage apt.

Fortunately, he had diversified a little and was able to live on what he had until his death in 2015 (14 years after Enron collapsed in December, 2001).

Ken Lay (the CEO of Enron) died of a heart attack in 2006 a few months after he was found guilty. My sister and I are convinced he simply stopped taking his heart medication. What he and the others (Jeffrey Skilling, Andrew Fastow, J. Clifford Baxter, a few more) did was unconscionable. Baxter ended up taking his life in January, 2002.

I have NOT one ounce of empathy for these sociopathic CEO's who literally ruin people's lives and/or are responsible for other people's deaths - like CEO's of insurance companies who deny claims thereby resulting in deaths.

There's a really good (albeit heartbreaking) movie based on a John Grisham book, The Rainmaker. Watch it and then see how sorry I feel for this motherfu**er who was murdered today.

(Sorry so long...I just needed to get this off my chest and this is a good place)...