Jeffrey Skilling
Jeffrey Skilling
Jeffrey Keith "Jeff" Skillingis the former CEO of the Enron Corporation, headquartered in Houston, Texas. In 2006, he was convicted of federal felony charges relating to Enron's financial collapse and is currently serving 14 years of a 24-year, four-month prison sentence at the Federal Prison Camp – Montgomery in Montgomery, Alabama. The Supreme Court of the United States heard arguments in the appeal of the case March 1, 2010. On June 24, 2010, the Supreme Court vacated part of Skilling's...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth25 November 1953
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
I've waited five years, I think I can wait another weekend.
This is a misrepresentation of what was going on.
This list here is one of the most sophisticated groups of investors I have ever seen in one single investment. I doubt seriously they would have let us control their investment.
Are the things that now, in retrospect, with what I've seen happen to my company, would I have done some things differently? I think - I think we all would do - we would do a number of things differently.
Well, as we built the business in the 1990's, as I said, I enjoyed that.
Well, actually, I had been working as a consultant to former companies of Enron, or predecessor companies of Enron and, so, I joined in 1990 to really start our wholesale merchant business.
I was not aware of the huge problems during most of the first quarter. I was out of town.
In the fall of the year 2000, there just happened to be a decision point when they asked me to become Chief Executive Officer of the company. It was a time when, as you remember, we were starting to have some real problems in the California energy markets.
In some ways, my life is on the line. I'm absolutely innocent of these charges.
I'm sorry, I have to calm down here.
I have nothing to hide, Mr. Berkowitz, so I don't think it's a question of tailoring your testimony. I will respond to your questions to the best of my ability.
I never did that. I don't think I did anything remotely like that.
I'll always regret that I left when I left.
I am absolutely positive. There is no truth to that allegation.