by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Sat, 2017 | Licensed to Lie |
Chapter 8 Continued: Bayly, incarcerated at Petersburg, Furst at Seagoville, and Jim Brown at Fort Dix, lived in daily fear of being attacked—by the guards as much as by the inmate population. There was no privacy. The filth and bugs were everywhere. Prison was...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Fri, 2017 | Licensed to Lie |
Chapter 7: Supreme Reversals April 27, 2005. Ms. Powell was invited to sit in on the oral argument before the Supreme Court by Maureen Mahoney. Assistant Solicitor General Michael Dreeben argued the case for the government. The Supreme Court included Chief Justice...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Fri, 2017 | Licensed to Lie |
Chapter 5: Nailing the Coffins The judge made the following errors: At the prosecutors’ request, he expanded the already broad definition of conspiracy (which requires an “agreement”) beyond all prior boundaries by adding “or understanding.” He did not give the...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Fri, 2017 | Licensed to Lie |
Chapter 4: The Nigerian Barge Deal: No crime here, but people are going to prison. In going over the indictment of Jim Brown and his colleagues, Ms. Powell noted that there were no real criminal offenses in the indictment. Instead, it cobbled together parts of...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Thu, 2017 | Licensed to Lie |
Chapter 2 Chapter 2 is the actual beginning of the story behind Licensed to Lie. It is the attack on the Enron Corporation. The characters in the scenario are: Enron Executives: Jeffrey Skilling, CEO Andrew Fastow, CFO Ken Lay, Chairman Jeff McMahon, treasurer Ben...