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you are trusting. not the same.. I m off the air for a few hours talk after 5

I take full responsibility. I know that I was stupid and naive and worse. Trust me, I know that. But I never naive enough to believe that he was going to "dump her" (his words). The only thing I asked of him was to allow me to live in an honest and forthright way, or to leave me alone.

I don't think that gave him the right to lie and take advantage of my stupidity.

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In the fall of 2001, Enron stock was in free fall. The employees of Enron were terrified that they were going to lose their life savings: for many, 90+ percent of their 401ks and pensions were invested in Enron, as encouraged by the senior executives of the company. Ken Lay called all of the employees together and reassured them, telling them that the fundamentals of the company were strong. He then imposed a lock-out so that none of the employees could sell Enron stock. What he told the employees were flat lies, but almost all of them trusted him. You know the end of the story....

The point is that the employees probably should have known earlier that the company was in serious trouble, but they trusted. Should they have done more to protect themselves? Yes. But he intentionally deprived them of the right to make their own choices based on complete and truthful information. That was wrong. That was criminal.

This is basically a version of the summation I gave to the jury in 2006. I did not expect to be making it again in 2015.

Good luck with the mediation today.

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Employees??

In other words, what I hear you saying is that I deserved to be lied to because I was stupid enough to trust him. You are not the first person to say that. I have to live with that.

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