7月8日，因涉嫌公司財務丑聞被起訴的安然前首席執行官肯尼斯·萊在法庭上堅稱自己無罪，并表示前首席財務官安德魯·法斯托才是真正應該受到譴責的人。他表示: At our core, regrettably, we had a chief financial officer and a few other people who, in fact, mismanaged the company's balance sheet and finances and enriched themselves in a way that once we got into a stressful environment in the marketplace, the company collapsed. Balance sheet是會計學術語“資產負債表”，是反映公司在一定日期全部資產、負債和所有者權益信息的會計報表。它表明公司在某一特定日期所擁有的經濟資源、所承擔的經濟義務和公司所有者對凈資產的要求權。