Lay’s lead attorney was sixty-five-year-old Mike Ramsey, a cantankerous Houston criminal-trial legend better known for defending murderers than for defending CEOs. But he’d won cases that seemed impossible: In 2004, he’d famously helped Robert Durst, a cross-dressing millionaire, walk away free from his Texas murder trial, even though Durst had admitted shooting his elderly neighbor, chopping up the body, and dumping the pieces in Galveston Bay.
