Based on interviews with twounnamed law enforcement officers, it says that "major holes" in the casewill be admitted to afederalcriminalcourtinManhattan as early as Friday.
"We do not believe that there is sufficient evidence at the moment to support the case for removing criminal penalties for the major production or supply offences of most drugs, " it said.
The case, which has been characterized in the press as a "major blow" to a criminal statute that has become the darling of the prosecutor's nursery, involved Jeffrey Skilling, who served as Enron's chief executive officer for seven scandalous months in 2001 prior to its infamous bankruptcy.