Kenneth Lay
publication date: Monday, September 25, 2006 (part of Round XXVIII)
category: Business
clue: This energy chairman became a model of greed when he energetically bilked his investors and bankrupted his employees for billions.
explanation: Lay was the CEO of Enron during its accounting scandal in which he dumped stock while publicly declaring the profitability of the company, wasting billions of investor dollars and bankrupting thousands of employees. more…
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Matthew Preston, Denise Sawicki, Steve Dunn, Amy Austin, Mike Eberhart, Aaron Shurtleff, David Mitzman, Elliot Farney, Jerry Mathis, Tony Peters, Scott Horowitz, Megan Baxter, Chris McKinnon, Jackie Mason, Todd Brotsch, Adrianne Rodgers, Kerry Odell, Josh Paddison, Joy Dunn, and Aaron Weiss
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