[lesdeuxmagots]

Jeff Skilling could probably give some real fantastic advice on business and finance, particularly structured products, operating, etc. That's not to say you'd want to FOLLOW the advice, but it would likely increase your knowledge or insight into something.

His failure was in ethics. THAT might be something you'd not want to look towards him for.

It's very useful to separate the two.

In this instance, an expert's read on a situation is interesting and informative. You just might not want to take his policy recommendation.

[SpicyLemonZest]

The problem is that motivated experts, especially unethical ones, generally feel no compunction about analyzing things in ways biased towards their recommendations. Jeff Skilling would surely describe some frauds to you as just a normal, slightly complicated structured product.