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Old 07-12-2006, 02:05 PM   #1 (permalink)
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NatWest Three:just how much power does Bush have?
You mean the bush admin ad extradite UK citizens for supposed crimes which are against the law in the US.
but commited in the UK



The impending extradition of the NatWest Three to the United States has raised barely a flicker of interest in Houston, the former home of Enron. The sight of middle-aged men being taken from their families and jailed for financial crimes has become commonplace in the city. Their pleas for sympathy fall mostly on deaf ears.

In its editorial last week on the sudden death of Ken Lay, Enron's former chairman, the Houston Chronicle summed up public feeling about the company and its executives. "Its culture of rapacious dealings, misleading accounting and market manipulation finally drove the company to bankruptcy. In the process, thousands of employees lost their jobs and savings.

"Houston's image and well-being were damaged, as well as the health of the entire energy trading sector of the economy... Lay, by dying, has




philip delves broughton reports on the atmosphere that awaits the accused bankers in Texas
cheated the court of final judgment and society of its debt, both financial and penal."

The vast majority of reader responses to Lay's death were similarly hostile: "The truth is that Kenneth Lay and his colleagues and proteges acted with contempt for the thousands of Americans they bamboozled."

It is not an ideal environment for the NatWest three to face trial, but that does not necessarily make it an unfair one. While the prosecutors in the Enron case have been zealous, the trials and jury decisions have been widely praised as fair.

David Bermingham, Giles Darby and Gary Mulgrew must now endure what many other people who did business with Enron have undergone for allegedly participating in what prosecutors have shown was a culture of getting rich while deluding investors and investigators.




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Hello DJ, how are you?

Well I was reading a British online newspaper on Sunday; it seems that that came about largely b/c of one of those laws and agreements Britain hastily drafted just after 9/11 with the US without bothering to study the "fine print" so to speak

this is the article
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...261765,00.html
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Originally Posted by Ananci_7
Hello DJ, how are you?

Well I was reading a British online newspaper on Sunday; it seems that that came about largely b/c of one of those laws and agreements Britain hastily drafted just after 9/11 with the US without bothering to study the "fine print" so to speak

this is the article
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...261765,00.html


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