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Old 10-23-2006, 09:22 PM   #1 (permalink)
ASU2003
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If you are 52 years old and got sentenced to jail for 23-24 years...

Would you go to jail or would you try and live life as someone else until you die? *Yes, what he did was wrong and he deserves to be punished. But this goes for any crime that you get charged with late in life. I think they should lock you up in jail once you have been convicted, not under house arrest with GPS monitoring that would take authorities a few minutes to respond to...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061024/...kxBHNlYwN0bQ--


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U.S. District Judge Sim Lake denied Skilling's request for bond and ordered him to home confinement, wearing an ankle monitor
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Skilling's second wife, former Enron corporate secretary Rebecca Carter, was in the courtroom.
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During his trial, Skilling listed his remaining assets as including a $5 million mansion in Houston, a $350,000 condo in Dallas, a Mercedes Benz, two Land Rovers and nearly $50 million in stocks and bonds frozen by the government.

Skilling, spent 11 years at Enron. He has three children — aged 22, 20 and 16 — from his first marriage. He and Carter have no children.

He took over as chief executive from Lay in February 2001 but abruptly quit six months later, citing a desire to spend more time with his family. Prosecutors said he left Enron because he knew the company was on the brink of bankruptcy.



I would only assume that after he spends the last few days in his comfy home confident, that the next quarter of his life will be behind bars. He will probably die 10-15 years earlier by spending his life rotting in jail. He will lose his wife, and the kids probably won't stop by too often if he is in North Carolina. By the time he gets out, the youngest one will be 39. He will be 75, poor, and with nobody left that talks to him.

Or would you have your wife rent a car (so when you escape from your house the cops don't know what car to look for), rent a small plane (or drive) for a trip to Mexico, and disappear to someplace remote. You probably have friends with yachts to help you travel from one place to the next. Changing your identity and living the poor life might suck (unless you have a hidden boat and loads of cash that no one knows about). Hell, I don’t know, but I would be cutting off the ankle bracelet and making a dash for freedom in the wild and live out my life as a fugitive. Hell, he could dye his hair white, wear shorts and a Hawaiian shirt, grow a beard, change his identity, and live the rest of his life on some hidden island or something. It would be a different life, but it would beat a long prison sentence.

And if you think you really need a passport (and the judge seized his, and if the wife goes along they will be able to track it if it's scanned someplace), you can get one that looks good enough to get you by 95% of the time here in travels through third world countries and stuff:
http://www.conchrepublic.com/passport_app1.htm

There should be a rule that if you are a criminal, you should hide 10% of your money in a safe place.

I would need to think of this plan a little more if I was a criminal that's for sure. But even if it fails, you have nothing to lose but a few more years as an old man in jail. Suicide becomes an option if you get stuck with a jail sentence that it is impossible to live long enough to ever get out (alive).

So, would you go to jail or would you live your life on the run until you die?

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