In the fall of the year 2000, there just happened to be a decision point when they asked me to become Chief Executive Officer of the company. It was a time when, as you remember, we were starting to have some real problems in the California energy markets.

Jeffrey Skilling is the younger brother of Tom Skilling the chief meteorologist at CW affiliate/cable superstation WGN-TV in Chicago Illinois. Experts believed Skilling's best chance was in citing a parallel appeals court decision that had dismissed guilty verdicts on three Merrill Lynch bankers accused of helping Enron to inflate profits. Skilling's main attorney was Daniel Petrocelli the 52-year-old civil litigator who represented Ron Goldman's father in his successful civil suit against O.

The Supreme Court of the United States heard arguments in the appeal of the case March 1 2010. On June 24 2010 the Supreme Court vacated part of Skilling's conviction and transferred the case back to the lower court for further proceedings. Jeffrey Keith "Jeff" Skilling (born November 25 1953) is the former president of Enron Corporation headquartered in Houston Texas.