Michael T. Shelby, the new U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Texas, didn’t waste much time his first day on the job. Sworn in on Dec. 12, just as the Enron Corp. debacle began unfolding, Shelby set his agenda immediately.

” ‘We have two things we have to do,’ I said. ‘First, we have to aggressively go forward with an Enron investigation. And second, we have to determine if our office has ethical conflicts in conducting such an investigation,’ ” Shelby recalls telling the staff.

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