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...that the government has rested its case in the Enron fraud and conspiracy trial, those who lost millions in the company's collapse more than four years ago will finally get to hear from the two men at the top-former Chairman Ken Lay and ex-CEO Jeff Skilling. Although the defense plans to call as many as 113 witnesses over the next four to six weeks, both men must now take the stand to clear themselves after weeks of damaging testimony by ex-employees like whistleblower Sherron Watkins. In fact, several of the government's 22 witnesses testified under...
...says. The problem was most obvious during the testimony of former CFO Andrew Fastow, when Lay's attorneys failed to get him to differentiate between the job responsibilities of the two men. Even now, it's unclear to observers who did what at the company. "If there were separate trials and Lay were there by himself, he'd be putting Skilling on trial," Androphy says. "Lay would love to blame Skilling for all the evils that occurred at Enron. Skilling was there. He was hands-on. It's not the same for Lay." Lay, however, may turn...
...performed jihad and killed Americans! Why should I stand up in front of you?" LOUAI AL-SAKKA, alleged al-Qaeda operative who is on trial for orchestrating the 2003 Istanbul bombings, after refusing to stand to address the judge in a Turkish courtroom last week...
Like Bill Gates, who started his charitable foundation shortly after Microsoft's antitrust trial, Scott happens to be burnishing Wal-Mart's image at a time when his company's reputation is under siege. He acknowledges that he launched the plan partly to shield Wal-Mart from bad press about its contribution to global warming. "By doing what we're doing today you avoid the headline risks that are going to come for people who did not do anything," he says. "At some point businesses will be held accountable for the actions they take." Meanwhile, should Wal-Mart succeed...
Renouncing one's Muslim faith in Afghanistan is a crime punishable by death. When news trickled out of Kabul late last month that a former aid worker named Abdul Rahman, 41, was on trial for converting to Christianity, the U.S. government responded with dismay--but not much else. The case "is not under the competence of the U.S.," Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns said. "If there is to be a trial, we hope that it's going to be transparent." That was the diplomatic equivalent of shrugging and saying, "What more...