Remember that point I 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 … Continue reading →

Week Sixteen 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 such argument. As with … Continue reading →

Week 15 of the corporate criminal case of the decade 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 in the trial provides an … Continue reading →

Week 14 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 to go beyond Week … Continue reading →

Week Thirteen of the corporate criminal case of the decade 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 the trial to date. … Continue reading →

The Jeff Skilling segment of the corporate criminal trial of the decade concluded during Week Twelve as the former Enron CEO testified for a bit over three days on cross-examination from Enron Task Force director Sean Berkowitz and on re-direct … Continue reading →

Week Eleven of the corporate criminal case of the decade 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 was able to sit … Continue reading →

After only one week of the defense’s case and the tenth week of trial, it has become clearer than ever that the Enron Task Force’s prosecution of former key Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling has become the purest attempt … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

Week Eight of the corporate criminal case of the decade drew to a close on Thursday with former Enron treasurer and Andy Fastow acolyte Ben Glisan on the stand and with the Enron Task Force announcing that presentation of its … Continue reading →