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Richard Causey was the chief accounting officer for Enron, the company that bilked millions out of billions.
In January 2004 Mr. Causey hung tough with his former bosses Jeffrey Skilling and Kenny Boy Lay when he pleaded innocent to a six-count indictment that included conspiracy and fraud charges.
Skillings was indicted on 35 counts in February 2004 and Lay was indicted on 11 counts six months later.
All pleaded innocent at the time and it was supposed to be a united front in which these 'Big Three' would crush the ratfink testimony of former chief financial officer Andrew Fastow who copped a plea just eight days before Causey was charged.
But this week the not-so-united front crumbled when Causey himself decided he couldn't hack the very real possibility that he might spend most of the rest of his life in jail. And so he too took a plea deal in which he agreed to flip Skilling and Lay in return for a sentence of 'just' seven years and a $1.25 million dollar fine.
Which, according to the unlinkable WSJ, led Mr. Skilling's lawyer Daniel 'Don't Call Me Rico' Petrocelli*, to utter the following words:
"Rick Causey pleaded to a crime he didn't commit to protect his family."
Again, that was Skilling's, not Causey's, lawyer.
Which leaves one wondering.....do these people have no shame?
Wait a second, what was I thinking.
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*Legendary BoSoxian Rico Petrocelli, of course. We would not wish to suggest any association, real or imagined, to this.
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