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The thin line of business criminality
In this earlier post regarding former Enron Broadband CFO Kevin Howard's recent plea deal, I predicted that the factual basis for the plea deal would barely describe wrongdoing, much less criminality. Turns out I was right. Check out paragraph...
The Glisan Interview
Tongues were wagging all over Houston this weekend as a result of Wall Street Journal reporter John Emshwiller's exclusive interview ($) with former Enron treasurer and Andy Fastow confidant, Ben Glisan (excerpts of the interview are here). The theme of...
DOJ throws in the towel on appealing the Fifth Circuit's Nigerian Barge decision
The Chronicle's Kristen Hays reports on the news that was bubbling through the Houston legal community on Thursday afternoon -- the Department of Justice has decided not to mount an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court of the Fifth Circuit...
Kopper and Koenig step up to the plate
Two more former Enron executives who copped pleas will be sentenced this morning, former Andy Fastow confidant, Michael Kopper, and former Enron investor relations chief, Mark Koenig. Both men will likely be presented today as paragons of virtue who simply...
More rumblings in the Nigerian Barge appeal
In a move that may backfire, the Enron Task Force filed this petition requesting that the entire Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals consider and reject the decision of a Fifth Circuit three-judge panel from last month (previous posts here and...
An attempt to withdraw a guilty plea exposes a dirty secret of the Enron criminal cases
As noted in this previous post about the typical mainstream media view toward the Enron criminal prosecutions, most media accounts of the case have perpetuated the myth (see also here) that the Enron Task Force has done a good job...
More Enron indictments on the way?
As anticipated in this earlier post, U.S. District Judge Sim Lake concluded in a hearing yesterday that the defense team of former key Enron executives Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling and Richard Causey had not established in his mind that prosecutorial...
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