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"The suspect charged in connection with a deliberately set fire at the River Oaks home once owned by former Enron executive [CFO] Andrew Fastow is at LBJ Hospital recovering from a jail cell suicide attempt Sunday," says today's Houston Chronicle.

Add that to Vice Chairman's J. Clifford Baxter's death which was ruled a suicide but may actually have been something more sinister. Reminders as to who he was:

"Cliff Baxter complained mightily to (then-CEO Jeff) Skilling and all who would listen about the inappropriateness of our transactions with LJM," Sherron Watkins wrote. LJM is one of the partnerships apparently used to keep a half-billion dollars in losses off Enron's books. The same letter warned, "We will implode in a wave of accounting scandals" unless Enron changes its practices. [...]

[Baxter] Sold 577,436 shares for $35.2 million.

Awful lot of fishy "suicides" floating around the Enron folk. Twice as many as Vince Foster as of today. Looks like Junior's friends are blurring the lines between Texan good ol' boy networks and The Sopranos.

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