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"Juries have a revulsion for admitted crooks, but as testimony comes in and they see them in person, they get more comfortable with the idea that these are the sorts of people who've partaken in crime and are qualified to testify, " says Kenneth Vianale, a former U.S. assistant attorney who filed a lawsuit charging WorldCom with fraud months before its accounting scandal erupted.
The substance of Assistant U.S. Attorney Sean Berkowitz's line of questioning yesterday was about Enron's accounting devices, with names like LJM and Raptor.