Enron
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Enron
For the first time in the four-week trial of two former Enron executives, the actions of the company's directors in a critical month in 2001 came under scrutiny during a cross-examination. Rieker is a former managing director in investor relations who served as corporate secretary in the three months before Enron collapsed into bankruptcy in December 2001. 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. Mr. Lay and Mr. Skilling are accused of conspiring to defraud Enron by lying to investors about the financial results of Enron's businesses.