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Oct. 13, 2006

Petrocelli Calls Enron's Skilling a Victim

LOS ANGELES - Pacing before the crowd, Daniel Petrocelli, lead attorney for Enron's former CEO Jeffrey Skilling, found an audience receptive to the argument that his client, far from a perpertrator of epic fraud, is actually the victim of of overzealous prosecutors.

By Gabe Friedman
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      LOS ANGELES - Pacing before the crowd, Daniel Petrocelli, lead attorney for Enron's former CEO Jeffrey Skilling, found an audience receptive to the argument that his client, far from a perpertrator of epic fraud, is actually the victim of overzealous prosecutors.
      "The line between criminal and noncriminal fraud has been obliterated...

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