The Enron implosion has brought a team of Dechert litigators to center stage as the firm has spent the last nine months representing former managing director Michael J. Kopper, who pleaded guilty yesterday to money laundering and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Kopper is the first Enron executive to reach such an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department’s Enron Task Force, which will now be aided in its attempts to build criminal cases against other top officers. Kopper fingered his boss, Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow, as a co-conspirator, though Fastow has not been indicted as of yet.
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