Reuters: Jury to be selected in long-awaited Enron trial

[PhilipShore]

Reuters
Jury to be selected in long-awaited Enron trial
By Matt Daily
Jan 30, 2006

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-01-30T110748Z_01_N29217234_RTRUKOC_0_US-ENRON-TRIAL.xml&archived=False

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Jury selection was set to begin on Monday in the long-awaited trial of former Enron Corp. chief executives Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling for their roles in the spectacular 2001 collapse of the former energy trading giant.

A pool of 100 potential jurors was to report to the U.S. courthouse in downtown Houston where 12 jurors and four alternates would be chosen to hear the case.

Lay, 63, and Skilling, 52, presided over Enron as it rose to become the seventh largest U.S. company, then plummeted into bankruptcy in a financial scandal that opened a window on broader U.S. corporate malfeasance and tainted the Bush administration.

Combined, the two men face more than three dozen fraud and conspiracy charges that accuse them of lying to investors about the company's financial state while they enriched themselves by selling millions of dollars in stock.

[Greeby]

1. Here's a problem

How can you have a "jury of your peers" when you're a corporate CEO who had a President in his pocket :shrug:

[Binka]

2. May The Wheels Of Justice Grind These Two Hucksters Into Sawdust

Reptilian Crooks.

[fearnobush]

3. Will the crappy media remind everyone of how Enron aided the King's

theft of the 2000 election by flying all those top paid GOP office staffers from Washington to Florida for that engineered fake yet violent protest they used to stop the vote counting?