There are some who believe that Kenneth L. Lay's death is way too convenient. Lay, 64, a former Enron executive, was found guilty in May (along with Jeffrey K. Skilling) of fraud and conspiracy. Both were on bail pending sentencing.
When I heard, I thought, well, that's not all that surprising. There might actually be some people who would prefer to be dead rather than spending a possible 46 years in prison. (There was afterall the story earlier this week of the 30-year-old Italian man who escaped from house arrest and begged police to put him in jail because he couldn't bear living with his grandfather.) Of course, the other possibility is that his death was staged - and the whole thing is a conspiracy to save him from incarceration. The other reason could be that with his "death" would void the guilty verdict, and spare his survivors financial ruin. Such was the belief in this conspiracy theory by one of the people interviewed (still suffering post-Enron's collapse) that she said she would need to see his body before she believed it.
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