Who thinks Bush will pardon Jeffrey Skilling before he leaves office?

Question

lets see, he gave millions to the Bush campaign even back when he was Governor, he will spend no more than 9 months of the 20 plus years he deserves, is that justice?

Why do repubs have to point the finger at clinton rather than answer the question?

It's not a clinton question it's a Skilling/bush question

Answer 1

Yes, I agree with you, especially since Ken Lay is deceased now. It just seems way too convenient !

Part of the problem that I will never understand is why the govt. didn't freeze their assets so they could pay back all those employees they defrauded who lost everything.

I don't know if anyone read that the same day Lay died, his widow put up one of their vacation homes for sale. How convenient.

Answer 2

I doubt that he will, but he probably should. I followed the details of the commission but not the trial. From the media coverage it appears that Skilling did not get a fair trial. During the commission it seemed clear that the person behind everything was Andrew Fastow and that is who the prosecutor made the deal with to get Skilling and Lay. Skilling and Lay were convicted based on the testimony of the person who was most responsible. I think it's sad how we still operate in hysteria reminiscent of the Salem witch trials.

It appears as if you want to associate Bush somehow with the corruption at Enron. That is purely ridiculous since most all of the criminal activity (other than selling of the stock) happened during the Clinton administration. I'm not going to blame Clinton for it, that would be stupid, but not as stupid as blaming Bush for it.

Answer 3

I'm trying to figure out what kind of mind (or lack thereof) would posit a hypothetical situation that has very little probability of occurrance, and then ranting and railing against Bush about it.

You have the wrong party. Bush doesn't pardon criminals, and hasn't yet.

Nor will Bush pardon terrorists like Clinton did.
Nor will Bush pardon drug kingpins like Clinton did.
Nor will Bush pardon ultra-rich criminals (for $$) like Clinton did.

Answer 4

Hmm.? Let's see who Clinton pardoned, shall we?

High-profile people who have received presidential pardons include:

-- Roger Clinton, who was convicted of drug-related charges in the 1980s. He was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty in 1985 to conspiring to distribute cocaine. He cooperated with authorities and testified against other drug defendants.

-- Susan McDougal, a former real estate business partner of the Clintons. She was sentenced in 1996 and released from prison in 1998. She was convicted of four felonies related to a fraudulent $300,000 federally backed loan that she and her husband, James McDougal, never repaid. One tenth of the loan amount was placed briefly in the name of Whitewater Development, the Arkansas real estate venture of the Clintons and the McDougals. Her attorney, Mark Geragos, said he remains hopeful that she would be pardoned, refusing to say whether he has received any indication from the White House that she would be pardoned. She was incarcerated for 21 months.

-- Henry Cisneros, who served as secretary of Housing and Urban Development during Clinton's first term in office. He was convicted of making false statements to FBI agents conducting a background investigation of him when he was nominated to the Cabinet post in 1993. They included misleading investigators about cash payments he made to a former mistress.

-- Former CIA Director John Deutch. The one-time spy chief and top Pentagon official was facing criminal charges in connection with his mishandling of national secrets on a home computer.

-- Patty Hearst, the 19-year-old newspaper heiress who made headlines in 1974 after she was kidnapped by the radical Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). She was later photographed, machine gun in hand, helping the SLA in a bank robbery attempt. Although Hearst would later maintain she was brainwashed, she was convicted and sentenced to seven years in jail for the robbery. President Carter commuted the sentence after she served two years.

-- Former Navaho Nation chief Peter MacDonald. He has been in a Fort Worth, Texas, medical prison as part of a 14-year sentence for inciting a deadly riot. He was convicted of inciting in Window Riot, Arizona in 1989 after he was removed as Navaho chief amid charges of bribery. Two of his supporters were killed.

Notable figures missing from this list include Leonard Peltier, a Native American convicted of killing FBI agents Ron Williams and Jack Koler in June 1975. Also excluded was Michael Milken, who made billions for himself and others in the 1980s junk-bond business. He spent 22 months in prison and paid $1 billion in fines before his release.

Webster Hubbell, a longtime Clinton friend and former Justice Department official who was convicted of fraud for over billing clients and served 18 months behind bars, was also passed over for a pardon.



Those with glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Bush is a great man and you don't deserve to say his name!

You libs can defend what Clinton did but accuse Bush of the exact thing. You're still angry that both Gore and Kerry were so pathetic that they both failed miserably. When are you going to stop crying about being such huge losers?

When can libs come up with a solution to terrorists? Why can't they give an answer? They don't have one. So we can throw Clinton in your faces because there isn't much you can do about it.

Bush will pardon who he needs to. Just know that he and the Republicans are in charge right now and they'll take care of buisness. You can sleep safely tonight, no need to say thanks, we know it's beyond you.

Answer 5

"Hmm.? Let's see who Clinton pardoned, shall we?

High-profile people who have received presidential pardons include:

-- Roger Clinton, who was convicted of drug-related charges in the 1980s. He was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty in 1985 to conspiring to distribute cocaine. He cooperated with authorities and testified against other drug defendants.

-- Susan McDougal, a former real estate business partner of the Clintons. She was sentenced in 1996 and released from prison in 1998. She was convicted of four felonies related to a fraudulent $300,000 federally backed loan that she and her husband, James McDougal, never repaid. One tenth of the loan amount was placed briefly in the name of Whitewater Development, the Arkansas real estate venture of the Clintons and the McDougals. Her attorney, Mark Geragos, said he remains hopeful that she would be pardoned, refusing to say whether he has received any indication from the White House that she would be pardoned. She was incarcerated for 21 months.

-- Henry Cisneros, who served as secretary of Housing and Urban Development during Clinton's first term in office. He was convicted of making false statements to FBI agents conducting a background investigation of him when he was nominated to the Cabinet post in 1993. They included misleading investigators about cash payments he made to a former mistress.

-- Former CIA Director John Deutch. The one-time spy chief and top Pentagon official was facing criminal charges in connection with his mishandling of national secrets on a home computer.

-- Patty Hearst, the 19-year-old newspaper heiress who made headlines in 1974 after she was kidnapped by the radical Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). She was later photographed, machine gun in hand, helping the SLA in a bank robbery attempt. Although Hearst would later maintain she was brainwashed, she was convicted and sentenced to seven years in jail for the robbery. President Carter commuted the sentence after she served two years.

-- Former Navaho Nation chief Peter MacDonald. He has been in a Fort Worth, Texas, medical prison as part of a 14-year sentence for inciting a deadly riot. He was convicted of inciting in Window Riot, Arizona in 1989 after he was removed as Navaho chief amid charges of bribery. Two of his supporters were killed.

Notable figures missing from this list include Leonard Peltier, a Native American convicted of killing FBI agents Ron Williams and Jack Koler in June 1975. Also excluded was Michael Milken, who made billions for himself and others in the 1980s junk-bond business. He spent 22 months in prison and paid $1 billion in fines before his release.

Webster Hubbell, a longtime Clinton friend and former Justice Department official who was convicted of fraud for over billing clients and served 18 months behind bars, was also passed over for a pardon.



Those with glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Bush is a great man and you don't deserve to say his name!"

Answer 6

Dose he know what the word pardon means