Lay knew of Enron's troubles, former finance chief testifies

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: March 10, 2006| Author: Alexei Barrionuevo | Copyright information


International Herald Tribune

03-10-2006

Andrew Fastow, the former chief financial officer of Enron, has provided some of the strongest evidence yet linking Kenneth Lay, the company's founder and former chief executive, to a conspiracy to defraud investors. But Fastow's statements, coming in the sixth week of the trial of Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, another former chief executive, were almost lost under a searing cross-examination by Daniel Petrocelli, Skilling's lead lawy...

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