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Litigation

Jun. 6, 2006

Shifting the Blame Can Sting - a Backlash Lay and Skilling Now Feel

Column - By Garry Abrams - Phil Spector, the big-haired, fashion-freaky, eccentricity-epitomizing record producer, and former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, the sober-suited but financially flamboyant executives who presided over the infamous $60 billion collapse of the Houston energy and trading company, have one legal thing in common.

Phil Spector, the big-haired, fashion-freaky, eccentricity-epitomizing record producer, and former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, the sober-suited but financially flamboyant executives who presided over the infamous $60 billion collapse of the Houston energy and trading company, have one legal thing in common.
      At one time or another, all three have asserted the "no crime was committed" defense. That is, they have claim...

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