Philip Hilder Quotes (9 Quotes)

This is a very, very significant win for the government. As chief accounting officer, he knows where the financial skeletons are buried.

Everything the defense has said until now is rhetoric. All that matters is what comes in at trial. They may have tried out some defenses in the court of public opinion, and they will use others in trial.

From everything I understood he was pretty ruthless and feared within the company. There is not a lot of sympathy for him among former colleagues or among a lot of people in the Houston community who in a real way were damaged by Enron's collapse.

Unfortunately, Rousseau has been released from death row, but as a cadaver. And the case is closed.

Prosecutors need to keep the jury interested. If the defense drags it out too much, if it all seems too complicated, a jury might think since they themselves didn't understand, that's enough for reasonable doubt about guilt.

There's nothing the government can offer them, and there's nothing they would take. This matter is headed for an absolutely certain collision course.

Obviously someone had the key to take out the urn and put in the potato chip can. One would think there would be checks and balances, but there was an apparent systems failure.

The government's case was coherent and made sense and was put in terms that the jury should be able to understand.

The mausoleum matter has been resolved to the satisfaction of all parties although we were disappointed. The goal of the litigation was an attempt to retrieve the missing ashes and we weren't able to do that.