Enron's Bankers Ask Appeals Court to Delay Trial

Bloomberg, Jef Feeley and Laurel Brubaker Calkins, 14 March 2007Merrill Lynch & Co. and two other former Enron Corp. lenders asked an appeals court to delay an April 16 trial on claims they helped the bankrupt energy trader's executives manipulate earnings.Lawyers for Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse Group and Barclays Plc urged the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to postpone the trial until it