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The Chronicle's John Roper has a post-Enron trial interview with prosecutor Kathryn Ruemmler, the second in command of the government's Enron Task Force, today. Though Ruemmler doesn't say anything earth-shattering — the trial would have been the right place for that, right? — she does give some behind-the-scenes insight into the prosecution's work against former Enron execs Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling. Among the details was what the prosecutors did in the courtroom when they felt like they were gaining ground: They passed notes!

Former Enron treasurer Ben Glisan Jr. took the stand in the Ken Lay/Jeff Skilling trial Tuesday, telling jurors that he helped make Enron look like it wasn't having serious financial problems — and that his former bosses not only knew about the trouble, but lied to the public about it.

Much of Wednesday's episode of the Ken Lay/Jeff Skilling trial was taken up by a February 2001 webcast to Enron employees and tapes of two 2001 telephone calls, all made while the company was on its way to collapse. Local media picked up on the irony of the webcast, in which Lay and Skilling predicted Enron would be "the world's leading company" by 2006.