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...thought I was being a hero for Enron." ANDREW FASTOW, former Enron CFO testifying against former chief executives Jeffrey Skilling and Kenneth Lay, on why he took part in secretive transactions that inflated the company's earnings?and padded his own bank account...
Watching former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow in the Enron trial this week was, at times, like attending a business school seminar. On the witness stand, testifying for the prosecution against his former colleagues Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, he spoke slowly and clearly, using easy-to-understand metaphors. When asked a question he often backtracked to give fuller, more detailed answers. His testimony was like a crash course in the financial shenanigans that led to Enron's collapse. One lawyer in the audience said listening to Fastow testify for one hour was like reading about the company...
...Fastow?s cross-examination was also like watching courtroom drama on television. In real-life courtrooms, defense attorneys rarely get to say nasty personal things to the witness without objections from opposing counsel. But the government, reluctant to appear to be defending Fastow, sat back and mostly let Jeffrey Skilling's defense attorney, Daniel Petrocelli, have his way. "It?s like fighting a guy with his hands tied behind his back - it?s a lawyer?s dream," said one courtroom observer, former Federal prosecutor Michael Wynne...
...Jeffrey Kwong ’09, the chair of the Freshman Committee of the Catholic Students Association (CSA), writes in an e-mail that “I believe we are called to be evangelicals. . . I believe there is a duty to unite with separated brethren in Christ and bring them within the Church.” But Sarah M. Kinsella ’07, the CSA’s Vice President of Community Development, stresses that Catholics don’t claim to have all the answers. “I would never claim to judge whether anyone...
...discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.“I’m glad that she made expressly clear her views on the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell policy,’” the co-president of Lambda, Jeffrey G. Paik ’03, said yesterday. “I’m also glad that she acknowledged the right of students to protest and make their views known; it says a lot to the students when the dean comes out and supports them.”Paik...