John Hueston, a partner at Irell & Manella in Los Angeles and the former lead prosecutor at the trial of disgraced Enron CEO Ken Lay, now says that former New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald’s writing about the Lay case “missed the mark,” according to a story in Corporate Crime Reporter.
“My impression is that Eichenwald’s premise was that Lay and Skilling, though arrogant, were not criminals,â€? Hueston told Corporate Crime Reporter in an interview this week. “They instead created a culture where crime could occur. My view was that that premise, though accurate in important respects, missed the mark. Both Skilling and Lay were more directly involved – the book failed to identify any such evidence. Having said that, it is certainly no fault of his because he didn’t have our access to evidence and witnesses.â€?
“Eichenwald in his article ‘Company Man to the End After All’ referenced documents that he claimed supported the theory that Lay sold only under financial duress,� Hueston said. “After reviewing documents prior to trial, it was difficult for me to understand how he could come to that conclusion. . . Mr. Lay had shared documents with Eichenwald. My conclusion was that Eichenwald did not see all of the documents that prosecutors reviewed.�
Hueston said Lay’s defense counsel made the same mistake that Eichenwald made – and Lay paid for it.
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