Don't Miss: Justice Defeated?

Former Enron founder Kenneth Lay paid a high price for it, but seems to have defeated federal prosecutors. Tom Fowler, a reporter for the Houston Chronicle, says that under Texas law, Lay's guilty verdict on fraud and corruption charges is likely to be thrown out, now that Lay is dead. He passed away yesterday at age 64 at his vacation home in Colorado.

Federal prosecutors were trying to get Lay to turn over millions in ill-gotten assets, but that effort, he says is probably doomed, because the case will be vacated.

What does that mean for former Enron employees and shareholders seeking redress for their losses? Fowler says they will probably end up settling for a lot less money than they are seeking.

Tomorrow, All Things Considered plans to push the frontiers of communications technology. I hear that host Robert Siegel is quite excited about the prospect of hooking up to outer space from his home. Siegel is scheduled to interview Discovery Shuttle pilot Mark Kelly tomorrow morning. Kelly will talk to Robert from the space station. So what NPR will do is route the call from Robert's ISDN line at home, to NPR, to NASA in Houston, to the space shuttle. Lots of possibilities for error, I would think.

It's been great talking to you for the last few days. Tomorrow, I turn over the Mixed Signals keyboard to Andrea Seabrook of NPR congressional reporting fame. I hear she is coming back from maternity leave just to talk to the cyberworld.

I am moving to Albania. Sounds like the title of some farcical something or other, but it's true. For the next year, I will be enjoying good, cheap wine, temperate weather and walks with my dogs in B.C. ruins at the crossroads of civilization. Later...