According to this Houston Chronicle article, Ken Lay‘s criminal defense attorney, Mike Ramsey, is apparenly not happy that Enron Task Force lawyers had sent letters to U.S. District Judge Sim Lake in late May and mid-June indicating that they were going to indict Mr. Lay in the pending criminal case against former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling and former Enron chief accountant Richard Causey.
Mr. Ramsey is not happy because the Task Force lawyers, at the same time they were sending these letters to Judge Lake, were advising Mr. Ramsey that they had not decided whether they were going to indict Mr. Lay. Mr. Ramsey says that he would never have met with the prosecutors to attempt to persuade them not to indict Mr. Lay if he had known that they had already decided to indict Mr. Lay.
Mr. Ramsey presumably gave this information to the Chronicle with a straight face.