Lay turns to God and family (and a pardon from Bush) after guilty verdict

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HOUSTON (Reuters) - When the guilty verdicts came down, former Enron chief Ken Lay turned to God and family.

Lay, the son of a preacher who has long maintained his innocence to fraud and conspiracy charges in the energy giant's collapse, was convicted on Thursday along with former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling of concealing the energy' giant's crumbling finances as it spiraled toward bankruptcy in 2001. snip

Lay then bowed his head, eyes closed, and appeared to pray as the eight-woman, four-man jury entered the courtroom to deliver the verdicts that could send him to prison for the rest of his life.

Lay, 64, slumped and shook his head, his sobbing wife Linda clutching his arm tightly, as U.S. District Judge Sim Lake read off the jury's decision. snip

"God's got another plan right now," Lay could be heard telling each of his five children and other family members.