Lawyers for former Enron chiefs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling launched their case Monday with the two men's former assistant, who said she believed that a key prosecution witness, Mark Koenig, lied about his involvement in company-related crimes. The defense teams maintain that most former Enron executives who admitted to crimes did so out of fear of prosecution and in hopes of receiving lenient punishments rather than because they broke the law.
April 04, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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Lawyers for former Enron Corp. chiefs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling launched their case Monday with the two men’s former assistant, who said she believed a key prosecution witness lied about his involvement in company-related crimes.
As they did during the first 2 1/2 months of the fraud and conspiracy trial of the two former chief executives, defense lawyers sought to erode prosecution testimony with their first witnesses.
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