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Enron was "railroaded"?
Ummm...not so much
Mueller and Weismann and their gang of thugs were severely chastized for Prosecutorial Miconduct. So let's talk about Enron and Arthur Anderson, shall we?
They also railroaded an innocent man in The Anthrax case costing The Taxpayers Millions in restitution.
Enron's Skilling wins his appeal
Prosecutors have had a consistently tougher time in the appeals court with Enron-related cases than they had in the initial jury trials. Convictions were overturned in a case relating to Nigerian barges that Enron sold to Merrill Lynch, though the case seems to be rumbling on. Doubts over the prosecution's use of honest-service arguments led to the overturning of a conviction against Enron Broadband's former finance chief, Kevin Howard (he later admitted one charge to avoid undergoing a third trial). Also overturned was the conviction against Enron's auditor, Arthur Andersen (albeit too late to save the venerable firm from being broken up). Of course, Enron's affairs were infernally complicated, so any trials over its collapse were bound to be complex too. However, the unfortunate impression that this string of legal upsets has left is of a scrabble to bring convictions at all costs rather than a quest for truth and justice.
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