A federal judge vacated the conviction of Kenneth Lay. The Enron founder was convicted on 10 counts of fraud and conspiracy in May and died in July.

Citing a two year old 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, the judge said that "a
defendant's death pending appeal extinguished his entire case because he hadn't had a full opportunity to challenge the conviction and the government shouldn't be able to punish a dead defendant or his estate," according to Associated Press.

However, this ruling allows weeping Linda, Lay's obnoxious wife best known for going on the Today Show sobbing that they had to sell one of their Aspen homes and were down to their last few million dollars, to keep the estate's stolen money.

Hopefully former Enron employees will file a lawsuit against the estate and eventually put this bitch out in the gutter where she belongs.