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The Wall Street Journal's Enron embarrassment
In anticipation of the oral argument on Wednesday in New Orleans on former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling's appeal of his criminal conviction, don't miss this Larry Ribstein post on Wall Street Journal Enron reporter John Emshwiller's tardy realization that...
The stench of prosecutorial abuse
The stench of prosecutorial abuse has long hung over the Enron-related criminal cases. But the extent of that abuse became crystal clear this afternoon when the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling's motion to...
The Glisan Interview
Tongues were wagging all over Houston this weekend as a result of Wall Street Journal reporter John Emshwiller's exclusive interview ($) with former Enron treasurer and Andy Fastow confidant, Ben Glisan (excerpts of the interview are here). The theme of...
Skilling talks
In his first meaningful public comment since being convicted on 19 criminal charges, former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling agreed to this Wall Street Journal ($)/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...
Emshwiller's Enron surprise
John Emshwiller of the Wall Street Journal ($) weighs in today on the defense strategy of former Enron key executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling for their upcoming criminal trial, and he is surprised to find that Lay and Skilling...
And in this corner . . .
Although not as well-known as John Emshwiller of the Wall Street Journal and Kurt Eichenwald of the NY Times when it comes to covering the Enron scandal, Carrie Johnson of the Washington Post has been doing some of the best...
Is the Task Force gripping in preparation for the Lay-Skilling trial?
An unusually high number of the prospective jury pool for the upcoming trial of former key Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling already have concluded that the two men are guilty of various business crimes merely because of their...
Thinking about the WSJ's Enron conflict of interest
The Chronicle's Loren Steffy thinks I'm stretching a bit in noting the conflict of interest that the Wall Street Journal has apparently decided to overlook in allowing John Emshwiller to report on the upcoming trial of the Enron Task Force's...
The Wall Street Journal's Enron conflict of interest
The Wall Street Journal's ($) John Emshwiller reports that former Enron chief accountant Richard Causey is currently negotiating with Task Force prosecutors regarding a possible plea bargain under which he would testify against his former bosses, Ken Lay and Jeff...
Signs of desperation at the Enron Task Force?
Already having engaged in intimidation of witnesses and dubious plea-bargaining tactics, the Enron Task Force is showing signs of becoming desperate regarding its legacy case. As noted in this post from earlier in the week, the Enron Task Force has...
Is this all the better that the WSJ can do?
I recognize the Wall Street Journal's John R. Emshwiller has already cashed in on the Enron saga. But even that reason for wanting to move on to something else cannot explain this tepid ($) article on the prosecutorial misconduct that...
The WSJ on the case against Ken Lay
This John R. Emshwiller and Rebecca Smith Wall Street Journal ($) article provides an overview of the Justice Department's criminal case against former Enron chairman and CEO, Ken Lay. Mr. Emshwiller and Ms. Smith have been covering the Enron scandal...
Feds Allegedly Focusing on Lay
The Wall Street Journal's John Emshwiller reports (subscription required) today that federal investigators are hunkering down on their investigation of former Enron Chairman and CEO, Ken Lay. Mr. Emshwiller has been reporting on the Enron meltdown from the beginning back...
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