This story should be popping up all over. The Bloomberg.com report focuses not on whether Ebbers was guilty but on the decision to send him to the witness stand:
- “The conviction today signals a complete rejection of his testimony by the jury, and it will leave many questioning the wisdom of sending Ebbers to the stand in the first place,” said Robert Mintz, a former federal prosecutor who is now with the Newark, New Jersey, law firm of McCarter & English. “The high- risk gamble of taking the stand simply blew up on him.”
According to a Forbes newsletter, “[t]he crimes carry a potential 85 years in prison.”