Not Dead Yet
Maybe it's living with a conspiracy fanatic--or could it be living under a government that spends a lot of time waving hands and shouting "Look over there!"? Naaah--but the first thing to cross my mind when I learned yesterday of Enron schemer Kenneth Lay's apparent death by heart attack was that it was darned convenient.
Did Lay perhaps pay a few people off to declare him dead, then retire to the Caymans or somewhere? If I were the prosecutor, I'd have agents keeping an eye out in places with comfy accommodations and no extradition treaties with the U.S., and watching where some money might move.
It's not such an original thought. It's not often that the New York Post and I have the same view on something, but their headline today (I'm saving you having to actually visit the Post site and sully your pristine browser, unless you actually want to, like to visit Page Six, for example) reads: Before They Put Cheato Lay's Coffin in the Grave, Check He's In It.
It wouldn't be very difficult: fake symptoms to get an ambulance to the hospital (old guy, under stress, reporting chest pain--the paramedics wouldn't have to be persuaded to think heart attack), pay off a friendly doctor and medical examiner; then hop a private plane to a friendly island. "Kenny Boy" (as W called him) probably has enough friends in government to smooth any bumps.
The reason I immediately wondered about this is probably not an obsession with conspiracy; more likely the continuing pattern of the leaders of big business getting away with screwing people under the current administration (can anyone say Halliburton? how about windfall oil company profits?)--it's a reasonable reaction in light of the evidence.
That is to say, not so much a conspiracy as a habit.
Did Lay perhaps pay a few people off to declare him dead, then retire to the Caymans or somewhere? If I were the prosecutor, I'd have agents keeping an eye out in places with comfy accommodations and no extradition treaties with the U.S., and watching where some money might move.
It's not such an original thought. It's not often that the New York Post and I have the same view on something, but their headline today (I'm saving you having to actually visit the Post site and sully your pristine browser, unless you actually want to, like to visit Page Six, for example) reads: Before They Put Cheato Lay's Coffin in the Grave, Check He's In It.
It wouldn't be very difficult: fake symptoms to get an ambulance to the hospital (old guy, under stress, reporting chest pain--the paramedics wouldn't have to be persuaded to think heart attack), pay off a friendly doctor and medical examiner; then hop a private plane to a friendly island. "Kenny Boy" (as W called him) probably has enough friends in government to smooth any bumps.
The reason I immediately wondered about this is probably not an obsession with conspiracy; more likely the continuing pattern of the leaders of big business getting away with screwing people under the current administration (can anyone say Halliburton? how about windfall oil company profits?)--it's a reasonable reaction in light of the evidence.
That is to say, not so much a conspiracy as a habit.
posted by Maines at 1:38 PM
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