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Lay-Skilling, Week Seventeen
Remember that point made in the previous week summaries about the predisposition of the leaders on the jury determining the outcome of the trial of the corporate criminal case of the decade? Well, in a strong indication that this trial...
Lay-Skilling, Week Sixteen
Week Sixteen (prior week summaries here) of the corporate criminal case of the decade was closing argument week, and the lawyers used the full 12 hours over two and a half days that U.S. District Judge Sim Lake allocated for...
Lay-Skilling, Week Fifteen
Week 15 of the corporate criminal case of the decade (previous weeks summary posts here) was the relative calm before the final battle of closing arguments next week. Although there was a skirmish over the Ostrich jury instruction, the lull...
Lay-Skilling, Week Fourteen
Week 14 (previous week summaries here) of the corporate criminal case of the decade is in the books and the biggest news is that U.S. District Judge Sim Lake has issued an edict that he does not want the case...
Lay-Skilling, Week Thirteen
Week Thirteen of the corporate criminal case of the decade (prior weeks posts here) was the Ken Lay week and, based on the media reports, it was alternately either the most boring or the most entertaining week of testimony in...
Lay-Skilling, Week Twelve
The Jeff Skilling segment of the corporate criminal trial of the decade concluded during Week Twelve (prior week summaries are here) as the former Enron CEO testified for a bit over three days on cross-examination from Enron Task Force director...
Lay-Skilling, Week Eleven
Week Eleven of the corporate criminal case of the decade (previous week summaries here) was the Jeff Skilling Week, and the former Enron CEO did not disappoint. In over three and a half days of direct examination (of which I...
Lay-Skilling, Week Ten
After only one week of the defense's case and the tenth week of trial (prior week summaries here), it has become clearer than ever that the Enron Task Force's prosecution of former key Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling...
Lay-Skilling, Week Nine
U.S. District Judge Sim Lake declared "Spring Break" at the conclusion of a short Week Nine of the criminal trial of former key Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling as the prosecution concluded its case-in-chief and the Lay-Skilling team...
Lay-Skilling, Week Eight
Week Eight (previous week summaries here) of the corporate criminal case of the decade drew to a close on Thursday with former Enron treasurer and Andy Fastow protégé Ben Glisan on the stand and with the Enron Task Force announcing...
Lay-Skilling, Week Seven
As the seventh week (earlier week summaries here) of the epic corporate criminal trial of former key Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling drew to a close, U.S. District Judge Sim Lake gave the lawyers and the jurors an...
Lay-Skilling, Week Six
The Andy Fastow Week of the criminal trial of former key Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling drew to a quiet close on Thursday afternoon, which contrasted sharply with the crispness of his heavily-scripted direct examination and the combative...
Lay-Skilling, Week Five
The pace of the Enron Task Force's legacy case against former key Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling continued to pick up pace during its fifth week (earlier weekly summary posts here), but that quicker pace is highlighting an...
Lay-Skilling, Week Four
Long trials tend to settle into a rhythm, and the criminal trial against former key Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling is no exception. After four weeks of trial, the prosecution has put on three substantive witnesses. Each one...
Lay-Skilling, Week Three
The glacial pace of the criminal trial of former key Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling quickened this week, as former Enron Broadband CEO Ken Rice finished his testimony after not quite three days on the stand. Although the...
Lay-Skilling, Week Two
At the outset of the criminal trial of former key Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling, the Enron Task Force prosecutors estimated that it would take nine weeks to put on its case-in-chief against the defendants. Inasmuch as that...
Lay-Skilling, Week One
So, week one of the Lay-Skilling trial is in the books. Let's review what we've learned. U.S. District Judge Sim Lake handles matters faster than the prosecutors and the defense attorneys do. Opening arguments are too long. The key evidentiary...
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