27 Quotes by Robert Mintz

Sometimes people feel they have no choice. It's their one chance to tell their own story.

Prosecutors have to show this was not simply bad management and bad judgment, but outright fraud. The only way to do that is with insiders.

They've done deal after deal with an eye toward getting to the top. Now that they are there, they're not in a position to hand out any attractive plea offers without looking like they're just giving away the store.

It's the difference between legitimate spinning and impermissible lying.

They will say he was the proverbial captain willing to go down with the ship.

They've got to make this case clear-cut for the jury and keep them awake and involved. Otherwise, they play right into the defense's hands.

If there's a lack of coordination, both prosecutorial entities will see their cases suffer,

The jurors can determine that this is a 43-year-old man with three young daughters looking at a very long stretch in jail.

The key for the defense is to put aside the baggage that is Enron, get the jury to see their clients as individuals and show why each of these transactions was business as usual. The longer, the more technical this gets, the more it hurts the government.