Ken Lay
Ken Lay
Kenneth Lee "Ken" Laywas an American businessman. He was the CEO and chairman of Enron Corporation. Lay was indicted by a grand jury on 11 counts of securities fraud in 2004. In 2006, Lay's trial began in Houston and he was found guilty on 10 counts. Lay died while vacationing in Snowmass, Colorado, on July 5, 2006, three months before his October 23 sentencing. A preliminary autopsy reported Lay had died of a heart attack caused by coronary artery disease...
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Could it be that my indictment -- curiously issued two weeks before the Democratic National Convention -- is largely political?
bad hindsight
In hindsight we made some very bad investments in non-core businesses,
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The biggest problem in California is consumers are not going to see the price signals. If they don't see the price signals, they are not changing behavior so the problem is going to get worse.
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(Vinson & Elkins) shared with us the four people Ms. Watkins said agreed with her about her concerns in fact did not agree with her on those matters. Nor did anybody else they talked to.
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is the Justice Department not willing to agree to an immediate and speedy trial?
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The word train wreck is something I would remember.
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You're always trying to get as much information as you can about different charges that come up in a case like this.
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I can't imagine a worse nightmare ... than being accused of criminal activity you did not do.
absolutely time
Absolutely not. At the time I thought all of those things were accurate.
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It was a very spirited discussion on a number of issues.
available believe concerns information number raised
We believe that the information we have made available addresses a number of the concerns that have been raised by our shareholders and the SEC about these matters,
arthur audit basically
We basically had a real-time audit by Arthur Andersen ongoing, all the time.
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I give them a lot of running room and authority to do their jobs. All of that I tried to leave for my senior people and I've found ... generally that works very well. Get the best people, give them plenty of authority and let them develop their own ideas and organizations and go with it.
political
look more like part of a political campaign.