Paula H. Rieker
PER
Paula H. Rieker Rieker
The scrutiny came as a defense lawyer for the founder of Enron, Kenneth L. Lay, sought to defuse testimony from a former corporate secretary, Paula H. Rieker. Rieker tried to rebut her earlier testimony that Mr. Lay and Mr. Skilling had sought to mislead investors and had ignored pleas to provide more accurate information. Rieker continued to claim that she had told Mr. Lay that he was putting out misleading information about aspects of Enron's operations but that he continued to do so anyway. Rieker on an e-mail message she wrote in November 2001 praising Mr. Lay's leadership as invaluable. She sent the note on the day an Enron rival, Dynegy, announced plans to acquire Enron, which was once the nation's seventh-largest company.