John Coffee Quotes

To the extent that [Lay] is making a statement of opinion, the government has to show not only that that statement was false but that he knew it to be false... The problem with doing that is that Lay did make some significant purchases of Enron stock and held onto all of his Enron stock except for those shares he sold pursuant to margin calls.

- John Coffee

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