Jury selection first step in Enron trial
Fair or not, Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling are used to being called crooks and liars in the aftermath of the scandal-ridden implosion of the company they once ran. What counts is whether a dozen people chosen as jurors in their fraud and conspiracy case agree.
More than 100 potential jurors were slated to pack a cavernous federal courtroom in Houston, Texas, today for the opening of the biggest criminal trial to emerge from the most sprawling corporate scandal in recent years.
