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$37 million and counting to defend Jeff Skilling. Enron's Skilling and Lay have spent nearly $100 million defending themselves. Doesn't having $100 million after leading a bankrupt company indicate guilt? WaPo:

The Enron trial is by no means a certain victory for prosecutors. The task force, composed of about a dozen lawyers and another 12 federal agents, will be outgunned in both manpower and financial resources. Skilling has paid his lawyers more than $20 million out of his pocket and $17 million more from insurance proceeds. Lay has shelled out millions of dollars more.

A guy robs a liquor store and then flashes a fat bankroll of cash when his lawyer wants his fee. Where'd he get the cash? How is this Skilling/Lay situation any different?

Hey, California, remember those billions you and Grandma Millie paid in fake energy overcharges? Here's where some of it went — it's the fat bankroll Skilling and Lay are flashing in front of their 24K gold-plated attorneys.

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