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Previewing the Skilling appeal
Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling filed a motion for bail pending appeal earlier in the week (download a copy here; Carrie Johnson's WaPo article on the motion is here) and, in so doing, previews the major issues that he will...
An interesting letter to Judge Lake
The day before one of the relatively few real Enron criminals is scheduled to be sentenced, an interesting letter to U.S. District Judge Sim Lake became public in regard to the sentencing of former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling. During and...
The Fastow sentencing memorandum
As Jamie Olis awaits his resentencing for working on a transaction for which he did not profit, Andrew Fastow's lawyers (one of whom is Olis' attorney -- small world, isn't it?) filed a sentencing memorandum earlier this week that claims...
The Lay-Skilling forfeiture motion
In the least surprising post-verdict motion to date, the Washington Post's Carrie Johnson reports that the Enron Task Force filed its forfeiture motion yesterday against former key Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling. A bookmarked pdf copy of the...
Skilling talks
In his first meaningful public comment since being convicted on 19 criminal charges, former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling agreed to this Wall Street Journal ($)/John Emshwiller interview in which he concedes, among other things, that his decision to testify before...
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 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...
"You didn't think we really meant that, did you?"
During opening arguments last week in the criminal trial of former key Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling, Lay defense attorney Mike Ramsey made the following observation to the jury about the Enron Task Force's indictment against the two...
The long slog begins
Former Enron investor relations chief Mark Koenig led off the prosecution's presentation of evidence yesterday in the criminal trial of his former bosses, Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling, and it quickly became clear that the Enron Task Force's boring approach...
Lay-Skilling, Round One
Well, I wasn't able to put other pressing matters aside to attend opening arguments yesterday in the criminal trial of former key Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling, but I did score a transcript yesterday evening and was able...
And in this corner . . .
Although not as well-known as John Emshwiller of the Wall Street Journal and Kurt Eichenwald of the NY Times when it comes to covering the Enron scandal, Carrie Johnson of the Washington Post has been doing some of the best...
The drift of the Lay-Skilling case
As noted earlier here, the clear drift over the past several weeks of the Enron Task Force's case against former key Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling has been toward the charges relating to alleged misleading disclosure of material...
Cleaning up on mopping up Enron
The Washington Post's Carrie Johnson -- who has written more balanced articles on the Enron scandal than her better-publicized colleagues in the mainstream media -- weighs in with this interesting piece today on the process of selling Enron's remaining assets...
How does the Enron Task Force really feel about Arthur Andersen?
This earlier post noted the 180 that the Enron Task Force has recently taken in regard to defunct accounting firm Arthur Andersen. After demonizing the firm, gutting it with a misguided prosecution, and alleging that a number of the firm's...
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