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Will Skilling's night out cost him?
cnn.com
Prosecutors eye changes to release terms, say former Enron CEO lied to staff about being drunk.
April 22, 2004: 2:32 PM EDT
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Prosecutors charged Wednesday that former Enron Chief Executive Jeff Skilling broke the terms of his $5 million bond during a bizarre alcohol-fueled fracas in New York earlier this month.
The court filing says Skilling's blood alcohol level was 0.19 -- more than twice the legal limit for driving in most U.S. states -- when police sent him to the hospital at 4 a.m. on April 9. The case against Skilling does not involve driving, however.
Officers described Skilling as "uncooperative and intoxicated" and deemed him "an emotionally disturbed person" because he was accusing bar patrons of being undercover agents for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
"At one point, Skilling went to the middle of the street, put his hands behind his back and began talking to the sky, asking if FBI cameras were capturing what was happening," the motion says.
The motion stops short of asking U.S. District Court Judge Sim Lake to revoke Skilling's bond, and instead asks for a hearing to discuss changes to his terms of release.
He was freed Feb. 19 after pleading not guilty to 35 counts of fraud, insider trading and lying about Enron's finances.
Skilling's attorney, Daniel Petrocelli, said his client regrets the incident.
"But it certainly did not happen in the way the government said it did in their motion," he said, declining to answer specific questions about the government's account.
He said the motion was unnecessary because the pretrial services officers monitoring Skilling's release have already provided information to the court.
"This only reinforces the view that the government is more committed to prejudicing Mr. Skilling than ensuring his right to a fair trial in court," Petrocelli said.
The motion says Skilling lied to pretrial services staff about being drunk.
According to the motion, Skilling and his wife, former Enron corporate secretary Rebecca Carter, met and began drinking with two men at the Four Seasons Hotel bar.
The party moved to a cigar bar, Bar & Books, around midnight, and the foursome began drinking with a married couple and their male friend.
Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling
Skilling picked up a $171 bar tab and kept drinking, promising his new friends he would "fly them down to Houston and provide them with their own maid" at his mansion.
But Skilling soon became belligerent, and accused his new friends of being undercover FBI agents. When his wife tried to get him to leave, he responded with obscene language, the motion says.
The bar's manager kicked the group out, and once outside, Skilling began trying to remove the front license plate from the married couple's car.
"The defendant did so apparently to gather 'proof' of the true identity," of the couple, the motion says.
Then Skilling tried to lift the woman's blouse to see if she was wearing a hidden microphone, which led to a scuffle with the other two men, it says.
One of them hit Skilling, who then grabbed his wife and accidentally caused her to fall to the ground. Skilling admitted this later at the hospital, the motion says.
At the time of the incident, Skilling's lawyers said "two aggressive men" began questioning Skilling about Enron and his wife was "thrown to the ground."
Philip Hilder, a Houston attorney and former federal prosecutor, said the motion is likely an effort to put more restrictions on Skilling.
"Had the violations been egregious enough, there would have been a motion for revocation," Hilder said. |
