Seems like falling stock values wasn't the only hazard at Enron.
From the BBC News
Enron witness found dead in park
A body found in north-east London has been identified as that of a banker who was questioned by the FBI about the Enron fraud case.
Neil Coulbeck worked for Royal Bank of Scotland and was interviewed by the FBI as a potential witness in the Enron case. Apparently three of Mr. Coulbeck's colleagues are being extradited to the US on fraud charges related to a transaction in which an RBS subsidiary sold off part of its Enron unit.
In 2002, US prosecutors issued arrest warrants for the three men [David Bermingham, Giles Darby and Gary Mulgrew], accusing them of conspiring to defraud their employers and investors in energy giant Enron, which had collapsed a year earlier.
The news of Mr. Coulbeck's death comes on the same day that another witness in the Enron case, Houston Mayor Bob Lanier,
collapsed while attending a funeral.
Lanier had testified as a character witness at Lay's fraud and conspiracy trial, which ended May 25 with the Enron founder's conviction. He had praised Lay as being "straight as a string with me" and said he never recalled seeing Lay do anything selfish.
Well, except this
Lay was accused of lying to investors and Wall Street about the health of Enron in late 2001 even as he enriched himself by selling millions of dollars in stock.
Or maybe this:
Enron's downfall cost 4,000 employees their jobs and many of them their life savings, and led to billions of dollars of losses for investors.
Anyway, who's funeral was Mayor Lanier attending? Ken Lay's, of course, the guy at the center of the Enron collapse.
Lay, 64, died July 5 while vacationing in Aspen, Colorado. He had been convicted in May of perpetuating fraud by repeatedly lying to investors and employees about Enron's financial health and was scheduled to be sentenced in October.
I don't know what was in the water over there at Enron. Maybe the employee cafeteria was going a little heavy on the saturated fat...but there seems to be quite an epidemic of bad health going around for these Enron boys.
Or maybe it's just Karma.
Late Edition This story would be incomplete if I didn't mention Clifford Baxter who made millions in Enron stock and then found mercy in a lonely bullet just when all hell was breaking loose.
Important ClarificationThis diary is not intended to promote a Conspiracy Theory...unless you think Karma is a conspiracy.