{"id":3404,"date":"2009-10-13T16:13:56","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T20:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3404"},"modified":"2009-11-05T12:18:42","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T16:18:42","slug":"skilling-gets-scotus-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/10\/13\/skilling-gets-scotus-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Skilling gets SCOTUS appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3405\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/10\/Enron-logo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Enron logo\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" \/>Convicted Enron CEO Jeff Skilling will get the chance to <a title=\"appeal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/special\/enron\/6665002.html\" target=\"_blank\">appeal <\/a>to the U.S. Supreme Court\u00a0his federal conviction on conspiracy, securities fraud, insider trading, and lying to auditors.\u00a0 Law Professor <a title=\"Tamar Frankel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/frankel_t.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tamar Frankel<\/a>, an authority on securities law and legal ethics, says it shouldn&#8217;t matter whether a manager directly or indirectly benefited from a wrongful act.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Managers command enormous power derived from other people\u2019s money. With power comes responsibility. With performed crimes comes criminal responsibility.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Tamar Frankel, 617-353-3773, <a href=\"mailto:tfrankel@bu.edu\">tfrankel@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convicted Enron CEO Jeff Skilling will get the chance to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court\u00a0his federal conviction on conspiracy, securities fraud, insider trading, and lying to auditors.\u00a0 Law Professor Tamar Frankel, an authority on securities law and legal ethics, says it shouldn&#8217;t matter whether a manager directly or indirectly benefited from a wrongful act. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1962,1963,1965,1964],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3404"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3654,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions\/3654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}