Friday, February 10, 2006
Advice for Enron Litigants: Keep It Simple
It took prosecutors just over four years to work their way up the Enron food chain, but now the failed energy company's top former executives, Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, are facing a jury in a federal criminal fraud trial expected to last at least four months.
How can each side best present a complex story that involves exotic derivatives products, off-books accounting and strange subsidiaries with names like Raptor? Experts say they should apply lessons learned in the other high-profile corporate fraud cases of the Enron era: Keep it simple.
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