Saturday, April 10, 2004

Grand Old Police Blotter: Lifestyles of The Rich and Heinous Edition

You are not the kind of guy who would be in a place like this at this time of the morning. But here you are, and you cannot say that the terrain is entirely unfamiliar, although the details of the Raptor restructuring are becoming fuzzy. You are at a nightclub talking to an FBI agent with a shaved head. The club is either American Trash or the Voodoo Lounge. All might come clear if you could just slip out of the country and into another where they don't have an extradition treaty. Then again, it might not.

Via Suburban Guerilla, we learn that former Enron president and COO Jeff Skilling is making a bid to become the Courtney Love of the securities fraud world:

Police found Skilling at 4 a.m. at the corner of Park Avenue and East 73rd Street and determined he might be an "emotionally disturbed person," said the source, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity.

Police did not charge Skilling with a crime. They took him to New York Presbyterian Hospital for observation. Hospital officials did not immediately return calls for comment.

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Skilling was at two bars in Manhattan -- American Trash and The Voodoo Lounge -- where he allegedly ran up to patrons and pulled open their clothes, the source said.

"He was shouting at them 'You're an FBI agent and you're following me,'" the source said.

Skilling allegedly did the same thing to people on the street, the source added. He was with his wife at the time.

Skilling was described as being intoxicated and highly uncooperative when he was approached by police, the source said.

Actually, the former Republican benefactor doesn't sound crazy; he sounds like just another drunk who needs to spend a day in the drunk tank. It would be good practice, Jeff.

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