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...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Thu, 2017 | Licensed to Lie |
Chapter 1 Licensed to Lie starts with the 2010 suicide of 37 y/o US prosecutor Nicholas Marsh. Then a flashback to 6 weeks earlier with the unexplainable crash of a private airplane in Alaska in which former Senator Ted Stevens was on a fishing trip with some...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Wed, 2017 | Licensed to Lie |
Licensed to Lie is an accounting of the attack by the federal government on Enron in the early 2000s, and unjust attacks on other companies associated with them just doing their job with no criminal intent. Companies were destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of jobs lost....