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24 Jun 2010 10:49

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U.S.: Supreme Court sides with Enron on a case for some reason

  • what? The Supreme Court favored limiting a law used to prosecute white-collar criminals, the “honest services” law, from being used that way ever again.
  • but … Two cases which used this law (Enron’s Jeffrey Skilling and newspaper magnate Conrad Black) were not simply overturned, but sent to lower courts. source

13 Oct 2009 10:47

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Biz: Enron’s Jeffrey Skilling gets a Supreme Court hearing for his trial

  • Man, if he gets off … Skilling, the Enron executive who didn’t have the, uh, fortune of dying just before getting sentenced, will get his day in front of the Supreme Court due to questions about the judgment. Skilling says the legal claim that he deprived the company of “honest services” is invalid, and notes that an argument that he did it for personal gain was never made. So off to the top court it goes. source