Jacob Frenkel Case Quotations

The strategy in all these prosecutions is to secure cooperation and slowly build cases against more senior participants.

It changes the face of the trial for the prosecutors and the defense. They had to have some contingency plan for trial preparations for a case without Causey. Now they just put that plan in place.

What it really means is a shorter, more focused trial, which is better for the government. It probably takes out of the equation some of the more complex accounting issues. The defense was likely hoping to make this case seem like a complex civil financial fraud case, and without Causey, that will be more difficult.

These cases have significant policy implications. To see two senior executives facing prison terms representing the balance of their lives sends a very strong message.

These cases are not a slam dunk. The biggest challenge for the government, if it wins, is to make the win stick.

I've always felt that he had a very strong case on appeal, ... if there's any case that's likely to be reversed, this is it.

They had to have some contingency plan for trial preparations for a case without Causey. Now they just put that plan in place.

While it's hard to compare-and-contrast (the two trials), there's no question that prosecutors tried a more streamlined case this time.

This case is a non-starter that has political appeal,

This is not somebody who made some inadvertent false statement, ... This is a case where a jury convicted a CEO for lying to two different government agencies. That's a big deal.

It's more likely that you can lose a case in jury selection than win the case.