Isn't the main implication of the Ebbers' verdict that anal operators like Enron's Jeff Skilling or Qwest's Nacchio are going down? Vs. more-removed managers, like Ken Lay?...
...the judge's instruction that the jurors could find Mr. Ebbers guilty if they believed that he strongly suspected something was wrong and intentionally avoided finding out about it. In the instructions to jurors, Judge Jones said that in order to find the defendant guilty, it would suffice to determine that he turned a blind eye to the fraud, even if he did not partake in it directly.
Or perhaps all of 'em...
"I think Ebbers pretty much hung himself," said Salina Strong, juror No. 4. "How could he be up that high in a company that he started and then he says I didn't know anything?"
