Triangulating Law, Data & Ethics
The leviathan Dodd-Frank bill, newly renamed the “Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010,” has been taken up by the Senate. On CSPAN-2, Hawaii Senator Daniel Akaka is now droning on about how “too many investors don’t know the difference between a broker and investment advisor.” Note well: Both “Wall Street Reform” and “Consumer Protection” […]
When a prominent Houston attorney advocates exonerating a convicted Enron executive you have to believe — as I have long argued — that something is seriously wrong with the conviction. In his excellent post, The Reeling Prosecution in the Skilling Case, Houston Attorney Tom Kirkendall explains why the U.S. Supreme Court should (and likely will) […]
With Wall Street agog over the DOJ’s biggest insider-trading sting ever and fully seven years since the Enron scandal broke, Jeff Skilling is back in the news. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Skilling’s appeal of his convictions in the Enron case for so-called “honest services fraud” and insider trading. Needless to say, […]
