From Mark Koenig to Sherron Watkins to Ben Glisan and, of course, Andrew Fastow, the jury received testimony that Lay and Skilling were well aware of grave financial problems at Enron, and that they participated in fraud or at least did nothing to prevent it.
Ms Watkins was not slow to blame former Enron boss Jeffrey Skilling and chief finance officer Andrew Fastow as the villains of the piece, who deliberately sought by false accounting to inflate Enron's profits and conceal its losses.