Enron trial moves into key phase with ex-CFO Fastow set to take stand

摘要

In more than a month of testimony from government witnesses,prosecutors have effectively shown Enron became a house of cards in the two years before its December 2001 collapse.With the arrival of former CFO Andrew Fastow to the witness stand this week,they will move into a far more difficult phase of the trial:attempting to prove founder Kenneth Lay and CEO Jeffrey Skilling deceived Wall Street and Enron workers about how precarious those corporate cards had been stacked.