All of the company's information goes through the investor relations department. Koenig has a key perspective of what went wrong because he [was] the window that [showed] the inside of Enron to the public.

I don't think they have any legitimate grounds for appeal. You have to have some major screw up for a case like this to be reversed or for a judge as prominent as this to be challenged by an appeals court and this doesn't rise to that level.

If these numbers turn out to be accurate, this appears to be the largest scam of retail investors ever. It certainly eclipses the high-profile boiler-room cases of the early 1990s.

Juries tend to be offended by the idea that consultants are watching their every move and predicting how they are thinking. Nobody likes feeling manipulated.

Once a defendant takes the stand, the issue becomes 'Do we believe what he is saying or do we believe the prior case of the prosecution?'.

There are those who are trying to roll back [a key section] of the law less than two years after it took effect. But these rules were put in place to protect us after Enron.