Letter to the Honorable Judge Sim Lake

On balance, the benefits created by Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling in building Enron seem to us to far outweigh any incremental harm done to investors from the alleged fraud. The economists we know who have carefully studies the risk management practices and techniques developed by Enron, agree that they were beneficial and will continue to be so. Not giving this reasonable weight will send a potentially harmful message. That is not to excuse any fraud, but rather to recognize the context of the decision.