Jeffrey Skilling was the former CEO of the energy company Enron Corporation.
He pled not guilty to 36 charges, including multiple counts of insider trading, securities fraud and making false statements stemming from the company's stunning collapse.
In 2006, Skillings was sentenced to 24 years in prison.
The scandal led to several reforms, including making CEO's personally verify corporate earnings reports.
When asked what he wants to do with his life, Skillings responded:
"I don't know, Larry. You know, at this point, I think my purpose, right now, in life -- what gets me up in the morning, which, some mornings, it's pretty tough to get up, but my purpose in life right now, getting up in the morning, is I want to be someone that goes out and helps explain what happened.
There are a lot of employees out there that, I imagine, have children that go to them and say, Mom or dad, did you work for a criminal organization -- a bad company? We weren't' a bad company. We were -- we were -- we thought we were building a great company. We thought we were building a company that was helping to open and create new competitive markets, give customers choice where choice never existed before. We felt good, all of us, and I think if I can do anything to get the message out so that -- so that our employees can look at their children and they can say we were part of a good organization. Something happened. It was -- you know, and we will find out what happened, but it was not because of the motives of the people that were involved, either their motives or certainly my motives. We were trying to build a great company."