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Ken Lay’s Theory of Corporate [Mis]Management
Jun 28th, 2004 |
Ken “I Take the Fifth” Lay (credit: LearnedLeague.com)
`I take full responsibility for what happened at Enron,” said Mr. Lay, 62. “But saying that, I know in my mind that I did nothing criminal.”
Kurt Eichenwald captures the querulous, Alice in Wonderland quality of Ken Lay’s corporate governance philosophy in Crimes of Others Wrecked Enron, Ex-Chief Says.
It can be broken down this way: “I WAS responsible, but I’m not responsible. If anyone’s responsible it’s that diabolical other guy down the food chain, not me.”
