{"id":876,"date":"2004-04-23T02:09:51","date_gmt":"2004-04-23T06:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/skillings_regrettable_episode\/"},"modified":"2004-04-23T02:09:51","modified_gmt":"2004-04-23T06:09:51","slug":"skillings_regrettable_episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/skillings_regrettable_episode\/","title":{"rendered":"Skilling’s Regrettable Episode"},"content":{"rendered":"

As if former Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling didn’t have enough problems already, he’s engaged in some extracurricular activities while out on bond. Folks, don’t try this at home<\/a>:<\/p>\n

According to the filing, Skilling and his wife, Rebecca, began the evening of April 8 with drinks with two men they met at the Four Seasons Hotel where they were staying. The group then went to Bar & Books, a cigar bar on the city’s Upper East Side, around midnight.
\nWhile at Bar & Books, prosecutors said, Skilling conversed with other patrons and had “several rounds of drinks.”
\n“The defendant during the evening invited the patrons to visit him at his house in Houston, informing them that the defendant would fly them down to Houston and provide them with their own maid,” the prosecutors’ filing said.
\nSkilling paid a $171 bar tab, and the other patrons reciprocated by buying more drinks.
\nThen Skilling grew hostile, the filing alleged, and accused one of the two men from the Four Seasons of being an FBI agent. That man left, and Skilling allegedly began accusing the other patrons of being with the FBI.
\nAt 3:30 a.m., the Bar & Books manager asked Skilling and the other patrons to leave, the filing said.
\nThen prosecutors say Skilling tried to remove a license plate from the car of two of the patrons with whom he and his wife shared drinks, to seek proof of their identities, and tried to lift the blouse of one of those patrons – a woman – seeking a “wire” used to record their conversations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nothing like removing license plates from cars or lifting up a woman’s blouse to spot those undercover FBI agents, is there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As if former Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling didn’t have enough problems already, he’s engaged in some extracurricular activities while out on bond. Folks, don’t try this at home: According to the filing, Skilling and his wife, Rebecca, began the evening of April 8 with drinks with two men they met at the Four Seasons […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}