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April 04, 2006
Charting Lay-Skilling
In connection with this NY Times/Alexei Barrionuevo and Kurt Eichenwald article on the upcoming testimony of former key Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling, the Times provides this handy chart of the government's core allegations in the trial.
The chart underscores the point made earlier here and here on why the Enron Task Force does not want the Lay-Skilling jury to see the indictment against Lay and Skilling, and does not want the Lay-Skilling defense team to be allowed to question witnesses about it -- a substantial number of the allegations that the prosecution has elicited from its witnesses to date are simply not in either the indictment or statements in compliance that the prosecution filed against Lay and Skilling.
Moreover, the chart also underscores the Task Force's slimmed down case (just half a dozen key witnesses) and -- despite the conventional wisdom -- that the limited areas of alleged wrongdoing make this an eminently defensible case for Lay and Skilling.
Posted by Tom at April 4, 2006 10:37 AM
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