Philip Hilder
Philip Hilder
Philip H. Hilder is an American criminal defense attorney and founder of the Houston law firm Hilder & Associates, P.C. He has represented whistle-blowers and other witnesses and defendants in several high-profile white-collar crime cases. He represented Sherron Watkins, the former Enron vice president who helped shed light on details of the company’s collapse in 2001. Ms. Watkins was named one of Time magazine’s three “Persons of the Year 2002.” Hilder was interviewed and featured in the 2005 Oscar-nominated Alex...
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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.
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Mr. Baxter had the utmost integrity and she respected him immensely. Mrs. Watkins expresses her heartfelt sympathy and prayers to her family.
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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.
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Sentencing is prolonged to exercise some leverage over the defendants. I don't think the defendants are in any great hurry either. If they testify, the chances of the government coming to bat for them later on for a reduction in sentence is greatly enhanced.
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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.
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The government's case was coherent and made sense and was put in terms that the jury should be able to understand.
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This is a very, very significant win for the government. As chief accounting officer, he knows where the financial skeletons are buried.
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This is a very, very significant win for the government.
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It seems unlikely they can accomplish this. They'll have to show that more than a dozen possible witnesses and their independent counsel analyzed the cases and the evidence and all came to the conclusion they should plead guilty to things they didn't do.
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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.
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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.
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We were hoping the lawsuit would result in solid leads that would lead to the securing of the ashes, but frankly, the road was too cold and we were not able to locate them.
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It's despicable that this has been allowed to happen. The courts dragged their heels. It's more than unfair. It's a travesty.
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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.