in California? Wonder if he'd paid his electric bill.

Farklee: Once again all of the "Total Farkers" live up to their stereotype as ultra-lib, anti-capitalist arseholes.

Wow, for all the shiat-turds in this thread, I didn't think I'd see someone come out and defend Enron. FYI - people died as a result of Enron taking plants offline during heatwaves. This is your free market bs you defend dumbass. Thanks also to the Bush administration, who at the time was letting Enron and other farks set the energy policy of the country.

As I have no idea how this kid was involved, and benefited from, his dad's misdeeds, I am going to say it is likely he lost his allowance and lifestyle and eventually couldn't cope. He also probably got a lot of crap about his father.

All said, as far as we know, the kid didn't do anything wrong. Except OD'ing. The sins of the father.

Dad was a total a-hole that destroyed lots of families, including his own, by his own hand. The ripple effects of that disaster were huge. I remember going to see the Corning CEO in 2008, those guys were almost wiped out by the Enron debacle. They built a whole new state-of-the-art plant for the fiber optics demand (Enron was a huge customer) that they had to then shut down entirely and the plant still sits unused, the result of Enron.

Yeah yeah, I know - CSB.

The son, not so much. Sorry to hear the kid is dead. Dad being in jail certainly didn't help.

/Did not know about Tom Skilling connection. Used to watch him on WGN as a kid.

loonatic112358:

obviously he should have been looking over his father shoulders

Yeah, just like his father's cellmate does after the lights go down.

I'm sure all those former Enron employees will take a moment to think about Jeff Skillings pain while they eat their macaroni and cheese tonight.

TrixieDelite: Cubansaltyballs: Good riddance. Maybe now Jeff can fully appreciate what he did to other families.

I hope his life, and the rest of those f*ck's lives end up like that guy in the book "Fair Extension".

The kid was 20, had done nothing wrong (other than being fathered by an unethical POS) and died at his own hands. Why would you celebrate that?

Because it harms Jeffrey Skilling.

This is one of the few things left that can harm him.

There are a lot of people in here that are all butthurt about my feelings and statements about this. I don't get it. The stupid kid is dead. Can't bring him back. The only thing we can do is act sad about the loss or celebrate the positive side of it. From my point of view, the positive side is that Jeff Skilling now gets the full experience of what his victims went through.

Some of his victims killed themselves because he swindled them out of everything. Their loved ones lost someone and had to deal with the pain of that loss. None of them did anything wrong, except for being the sucker that Jeff Skilling could swindle out of their retirement money.

He gets to spend the rest of his days feeling just like the so many next-of-kins he left behind. Just like them, he'll have to feel regret for doing something. He'll feel responsible for them dying alone in every sense. He will have to live with the guilt that there is nothing he could do to stop it. He'll have to spend the rest of his days knowing that if he wasn't such a greedy f*ck that spent his adult life swindling good and trusting people out of their retirements, destroying their businesses, and ruining countless lives, all so he could have a vacation home and a pile of money... he would have remained a free man, who could raise his son to be good man, and could guide him through the tough spots in his life. Instead, his son died alone, without anyone to turn to. His son probably died convulsing on the floor in a state of despair and poisoned by drugs... instead of going on a fishing trip with his old man and learning from his wisdom about women.

Nothing can be done to change any of that. The kid is dead. I am not sad about it. I look at the bright side of it. This event might spark some small bit of humanity in the evil, soulless, heartless scumbag of a person that Jeff Skilling is. If it doesn't, at least he can feel the same sense of loss so many others have felt because of his greed.

WhyteRaven74: Cubansaltyballs: the positive side is that Jeff Skilling now gets the full experience of what his victims went through.

To see as a positive the infliction of suffering upon another is to be worse than they are.

No. There is always an upside to every situation. In this case, Jeff Skilling suffers. So what.

Not the kid's fault, what his father did. His death is a shame.

His dad does deserve to rot in jail. Too bad Kenny Lay had his heart attack to the head.