Federal prosecutors, during opening statements Thursday in a criminal trial against former Homestore CEO Stuart H. Wolff, charged that Wolff was driven by "his ego and his greed" to artificially inflate the company's revenue numbers and deceive investors. Wolff's lawyers, meanwhile, portrayed him as a "smart guy from Oklahoma," an electrical engineer with great ideas about the Internet but "not one lick of managerial experience" before his role at the company. Wolff, according to his legal defense team, "left the accounting to the accountants." The jury will have to sort out whether Wolff is guilty of participating in a criminal conspiracy with other Homestore executives to commit securities fraud, filing false financial reports, falsifying the company's financial records and misleading accountants about the company's finances and engaging in illegal insider trading.