"It turns out that Linda Lay's weepy interview with Lisa Meyers of NBC News this week was as phony as an Enron stock prospectus. The tears shed by Lay's latest trophy wife were scripted by public relations mavens from the powerhouse firm Hill and Knowlton...
Now the Lays face poverty and deserve pity, not jail time. "We're broke," Linda moaned. "We're selling everything we own." The tears streamed...
According to a review of the Lay's real estate holdings in the Houston metro area, they still own over a dozen properties valued at more than $10 million. None of them are on the market. Then there's that $14 million "vacation" home in Aspen."
(...Plus 12 million dollars worth of Enron stock sold 5/01-11/01 according to insider trading records posted on MSNBC financial website...)
THE BOROWITZ REPORT: (;>)
"Scenes of Linda Lay Living Large Undercut Earlier Claims of Poverty"
"One week after telling NBC’s Lisa Myers that her family was desperately staving off bankruptcy, Linda Lay, the wife of former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay, made what many feel was an ill-advised appearance on the popular MTV show “Cribs.”
“Cribs”, which offers viewers an exclusive look at the opulent and often ostentatious homes of rock stars, rappers, and other celebrities, had never turned its cameras on the home of an embattled energy executive before, insiders say.
What the cameras captured, however, were hardly the impoverished surroundings that Mrs. Lay had described to NBC’s Myers, starting with a gurgling indoor grotto populated by Mrs. Lay’s buff, beefy entourage.
“This is where I go to chill with my posse,” Mrs. Lay said, indicating a dozen male hangers-on wearing abundant gold jewelry..."
GERMAN "TELEPOLIS" (Google translation)
"My Enron stinks" Goedart Palm 08.02.2002
"The largest failure of US enterprise history develops to the government scandal"
"The free free-market economy is considered as well known as the best of all possible economic systems. With socialism the operating system did not function, when capitalistic managing is it only small nose, which endanger almost unexplainably the world economy and the global recession lead into. The correction of such erring ways does not have the first political priority in the times of the anti-terror fight long...
When the sentimental song transferred in the television set to the high point to excite the sympathy of the nation Mrs. Lay occurred meanwhile a fatal finger error. Us is nothing remained, except which house, in which we live, schluchzte the poor, Linda gebriefte insufficiently at this point...
The Lays remain at least still nine million dollar shares of other enterprises. Oh, and three to the sales offered mansions, which are to bring 18 million - together with eleven to further property objects, which could also nourish a naked man...
And if that is not enough yet, there is compensation after reports of CNN now also still 80 million dollar. No miracle that Kenny Boy does not have interest to carry out for the hearing on the part of the financial committee of the house of representatives consequence. Lays place of residence is not at present well-known, its lawyer receives no citations for it."