KANSAS CITY, KAN. ? After a Labor Day break, jurors in the federal fraud trial of two former Westar Energy Inc. executives continued their deliberations Wednesday without reaching a verdict.

The jury is scheduled to begin its seventh day of deliberations today. Jurors spent six and a half days deliberating last year before saying they couldn’t reach a consensus on more than half of the charges facing former Westar chief executive officer David Wittig and former strategy officer Douglas Lake, forcing U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson to declare a mistrial.

The panel received the case Aug. 25 after 10 weeks of jury selection and testimony.

Both men face 40 counts of conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering and circumvention of internal controls.