Andersen Employee Tells Of Shredding

The Wall Street Journal reports that Patricia Grutzmacher, 32, said that David Duncan, the lead partner on the Enron account, only reminded staff about the policy and did not instruct the wholesale destruction of documents.

Duncan himself said under oath last week that he did not think he had done anything wrong by following firm policy, but, at the same time, he has pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice charges.

Prosecutors are attempting to prove that the sudden promotion of the Andersen record keeping policy was an implict effort to do away with documents before investigators had the opportunity of looking through them.