{"id":198332,"date":"2007-11-16T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T05:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/16\/judge-u-s-can-use-asset-forfeiture-on-ken-lays-estate\/"},"modified":"2007-11-16T00:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T05:09:00","slug":"judge-u-s-can-use-asset-forfeiture-on-ken-lays-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/16\/judge-u-s-can-use-asset-forfeiture-on-ken-lays-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge U.S. Can Use Asset Forfeiture on Ken Lay&#8217;s Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since he died while appealing, he is technically, though clearly not morally, innocent of any criminal offense, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/business\/5302617.html\">a judge has said that he can go after his assets in a civil proceeding<\/a> where the standard of proof is far lower.<\/p>\n<p>As a matter of principle, I am opposed to taking a second bite at the apple this way, but nonetheless, I do feel a bit of glee at this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since he died while appealing, he is technically, though clearly not morally, innocent of any criminal offense, a judge has said that he can go after his assets in a civil proceeding where the standard of proof is far lower. As a matter of principle, I am opposed to taking a second bite at the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,970,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-corruption","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}