The Sand Castle did not have backup generators to keep crucial services running, and the staff did not organize transportation to shelters for residents.
He has been under pressure since insisting that bonuses needed to rise last year to keep crucial staff and avoid a "death spiral" that might otherwise have occurred if they were allowed to leave.
Part of that effort included payments of millions of dollars to keep crucial employees, including some natural gas and electricity traders, both before the collapse of Enron's merger with Dynegy and soon before the company sought bankruptcy protection.
The Enron Corporation asked a bankruptcy court in New York today for permission to spend as much as $130 million to keep crucial employees working for the company as it reorganizes its business.
Meanwhile, an S.E.C. filing Monday revealed that Take-Two had adopted a severance plan for employees who lose their jobs because of a takeover by another firm, ostensibly to keep crucial workers from looking for more secure jobs elsewhere.
But as a result of a successful application earlier this year by the foreign secretary, William Hague, to keep crucial evidence secret, the coroner concluded on Thursday that it would be better to exclude the issue than to risk "an incomplete and potentially misleading" verdict.
