January 25, 2002 - Former Enron vice chairman J. Clifford Baxter is found dead in an apparent suicide. February 12, 2002 - Lay invokes his Fifth Amendment right before the Senate Commerce Committee.

The famous ancient Greek dramatist Sophocles once said he'd rather "fail in honor rather than succeed by fraud." Sophocles might be irked, if he were alive today, by the many criminal opportunists who ...