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  • Defense: Gov't Manufactured Enron Case - Enron, Lay, Skilling trial, final arguments

    05/16/2006 8:39:27 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 4 replies · 269+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/16/06 | Kristen Hays - ap
    HOUSTON - The government bore down on Enron Corp. as it would the Mafia, intimidating top lieutenants into pointing fingers at their bosses because someone had to pay for crimes that preceded the company's stunning collapse, the lawyer for former Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling said Tuesday. "This was all manufactured after the fact," Daniel Petrocelli declared in an impassioned plea for jurors to acquit his client of all 28 fraud and conspiracy counts against him. "Because it's Enron. After all, somebody has to pay. It's Enron." In a searing closing argument, Petrocelli sought to drive home the defense theme that...