How could ANYONE believe that there could be foul play in Ken Lay's death?

[joeunderdog]

After all, it's only a billion dollar con game. And as you can see by the list below, the friendly folks in the Energy Biz who had knowledge of Andersonian accounting practices sometimes had trouble staying alive. One might need to assume that there would have to have been a little cooperation from the police to mischaracterize the circumstances of their deaths, so believe what you will. But if you don't believe the "authorities'" official stories of these men, how could you put anything past them in their role in the death of Ken Lay?

Murder, suicide, faked death, heart attack. Show us proof.

Cliff Baxter
Found dead in his car, shot in the head. Mr. Baxter was vice chairman of Enron Corp. when he resigned in May 2001. Enron has been hot copy lately with the revelation that they were the largest campaign contributors for George W. Bush. Was J. Clifford Baxter a potential witness to Bush foreknowledge of their wrongdoings? His death was ruled a suicide.

http://www.georgewalkerbush.net/bushdeathlist.htm

The death of J. Cliff Baxter, the former vice chairman of Enron, looks a lot like that of former White House Deputy Counsel Vincent W. Foster, Jr. Foster's death was pronounced a suicide by the U.S. Park Police when they found a gun in his hand. The media accepted the word of the police, who had made no investigation worthy of the name.
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The claim that Foster killed himself came as a shock to his family, close friends and co-workers. Close friend Webster Hubbell told a partner at the Rose Law Firm not to believe the stories that Foster committed suicide. Mrs. Foster accepted the suicide finding, but Vincent Jr., the oldest son, told classmates that his father did not kill himself. The New York Times reported that a former business associate of Cliff Baxter's called him the day before his death, congratu-lating him for having criticized Enron's practices before resigning. Someone had suggested that Baxter hire a bodyguard, and Baxter told the caller, "I'm a businessman. Why do I need a bodyguard?" The Baxter family, according to close friends, all believe he was murdered.

http://www.aim.org/publications/weekly_column/2002/02/06.html

James Daniel Watkins
An autopsy report has confirmed that a man whose body was found in a van parked in the Pike National Forest (in Colorado) last week committed suicide. (Hmmm, Park Police again?)
Snowmobile riders discovered the body of James Daniel Watkins, 59, in a snow-packed parking area off Rampart Ridge Road in Douglas County on Dec. 1.
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Watkins had been missing since the afternoon of Nov. 13, 2001 when he left work at the downtown Denver accounting firm of Arthur Andersen.
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Officials initially said the death was suspicious and were awaiting the autopsy findings before ruling whether it was a homicide or a suicide.
http://www.apfn.org/enron/gunshot.htm

Jake Horton
Greg Palast writes) Jake Horton was the senior vice president of a company called Southern which since the sad demise of Enron is the number one power company in the United States-they are the guys who have us by the bulbs. Who are these guys? Jake Horton was the Vice President of that company and he found something unusual in the mid eighties-he found that the company was making political campaign contributions. He knows because he was delivering them in little brown paper bags-and in the good old days before the miracle of de-regulation-there was a guy- a disabled president called Franklin D Roosevelt-who was morally however abled. He gave us a law called the Public Utility Holding Company Act- which didn’t put a limit on campaign contributions by power companies-he said no soft money, FDR-he said no hard money-he said NO MONEY-because when a power company gives money to the government that regulates it-it has got to be a bribe, right? That went out the window, right?

But with de-regulation signed by George Bush senior in 1992 on his way out, right? But in the meantime before that Jake had delivered some cash and he was going to take the fall-so he said you know what else-he said make me take the fall and I have some news for you-there is a little bit of a problem with our accounting system-there is one set of books that we give to our regulators and there is another set of books locked in the trunk of the car of the Senior Vice President of the company. This is the biggest power corporation that is there in North America, right? And they pretended according to these books that the company had spent 61 million dollars repairing its power plants and its grid systems-but it didn’t.

It pocketed the money-Now Jake thought that the Attorney General ought to have this information-borrowed the company plane-10 minutes after the plane took off, April 1989-the plane exploded.Co-incidence? I don’t want to hear from the conspiracy nuts out there-actually the company did not believe it was an accident-the chairman of the board said to BBC television, where I work, that Jake saw no other way out-and anyway the company was about to be indicted by Grand Jury not for Jake’s demise but for the funny books under the US Racketeering Laws-except there is a funny provision in the country’s racketeering laws which says that the justice dept can pull an indictment-and in fact the Justice Dept under George Senior’s government pulled out the indictment on this company-because they said it may be an odd method of keeping your books in the trunk of the car of the company’s Vice President-but according to Bush’s guys it was approved by that upstanding auditing firm-Arthur Anderson
http://www.democracynow.org/print.pl?sid=03/08/22/1529206

And on a reach, if you want to throw in the plane crash/gun shot wound death of Clinton Commerce Secratary Ron Brown who was reportedly being investigated for, amongst other things, ties to the Energy Dept, then you could make a connection there, too. Brown had early ties to Enron. The circumstances of that plane crash are controversial.


I, for one, will believe anything--homicide, faked death, whatever--until these possibilities are ruled out. If the police do their job and investigate the death of this public figure, this convicted felon, then I'll accept it. They owe it to the family to rule out foul play and to the victims to prove that they've got positive ID of a man who has an enormous debt to pay to them and society.

Show me.