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Things aren't that easy these days for ex-Enron CEO Jeff Skilling: Not only has he been convicted of helping bring down a huge energy company, but now he can't get at some $60 million of his money. Skilling's lawyers are trying to change that, though, by asking the government to release the $60 mil — partly so he can have some spending money, but mostly because Skilling still owes his legal team millions of dollars.

Ah, this is what we've been waiting for: Ex-Enron executive Jeff Skilling gave us a taste of what his cross-examination might be like today when he lashed out at government prosecutors, claiming they conducted a "rewriting of history" to blame Enron's downfall on him and former Chairman Ken Lay rather than the people actually responsible. "I think they have purposely not looked at facts they should have looked at if they wanted to come to a more balanced and accurate conclusion," Skilling, Enron's former CEO, said during testimony in his and Lay's trial yesterday.

As the trial of former Enron execs Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling picks up again today (everyone gets a three-day weekend, of sorts), jurors are no doubt be dreaming of in-court hilarity, the Chronicle staff is patting itself on the back again and again for being noticed by The New York Times and teams of appellate lawyers will be thinking of ways to send the whole horrific escapade to appeal.