Broadband trial seen as warm-up (Case of 5 Enron Execs)

[Dover]

April 16, 2005, 11:55PM

Broadband trial seen as warm-up
Case of 5 former Enron execs may indicate how Lay, Skilling will fare

By MARY FLOOD
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle

Five former Enron executives accused of conspiring to paint a profitable face on the company's faltering Internet business are scheduled to go to trial Monday on charges they lied about technology and accounting — and in some cases made millions doing it.

One hundred potential jurors are to be questioned in U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore's court for two hours by lawyers to find 12 jurors and four alternates for the two-month-long trial. The lawyers will try to weed out those with bias about Enron.

"This case will put at issue the practices and procedures of an entire Enron unit. In many ways, it can be viewed as the warm-up act to the major attraction when (Ken) Lay, (Jeff) Skilling and (Rick) Causey go on trial," said Robert Mintz, a New Jersey-based lawyer and former federal prosecutor who follows Enron.

"This trial will probably give us the first real glimpse into the corporate psyche that led to Enron's dramatic collapse. We may understand for the first time how a company could have risen so fast and traveled so far with so little real substance behind it."...cont'd

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3138483

[tomreedtoon]

1. And what does Satan's Evil Crow have to do with this?

Is Satan's Crow also snatching the souls of innocents for the Enron executives, as well as to preserve Tom Delay? Please explain this frightning picture and its demonic association to the Enron case.

[Hekate]

2. Wow. This says more about you than about the image

Rather horrific interpretation.

What I see is a beautiful spiritual mythological being set amongst the stars, his soul expressing itself as a bird and taking wing.

But perhaps the poster whose avatar this is can expand on the theme.

Hekate

[tomreedtoon]

4. No, dear deluded soul...

...it's Satan's Crow taking the soul of an innocent to Hell, where it will be trained to be part of Malebolgia's Army to storm Heaven and help George Bush and his pals.

I know far more about the nature of the universe than you do. That light at the end of the tunnel is a gorilla holding a torch.

[Hekate]

3. Yummy. It's been a long time coming

Time to get out the :popcorn: and sprinkle it with a little schadenfreude.

Hekate
another ripped-off Californian