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The Supreme Court has turned away an appeal from a former Merrill Lynch executive who was convicted on perjury and obstruction charges that stemmed from a bogus 1999 deal involving Enron.
In a Dec. 1 story about corporate scandal and vanished wealth since Enron's collapse a decade ago, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Tyco International filed for bankruptcy in 2002. The company never filed for bankruptcy.
Former Enron Corp. employee George Maddox, who lost his retirement savings when the energy giant collapsed, says he has been forced to spend his golden years making ends meet by mowing pastures and living in a run-down East Texas farmhouse.
A federal appeals court panel on Friday upheld a former Merrill Lynch executive's conviction on perjury and obstruction charges that stemmed from a bogus 1999 deal involving Enron.
Andrew Fastow, the mastermind behind financial schemes that doomed Enron Corp., returned to Houston this week to serve the remainder of his six-year sentence at a halfway house, a federal prison official said Wednesday.
Former Enron Corp. CEO Jeff Skilling should not receive a new trial on his convictions of 19 counts arising from the once-giant Houston-based energy company's downfall, a federal appeals court panel ruled Wednesday.
The eight-year long criminal prosecution related to failed Enron Corp.'s broadband unit came to a close Monday with the final sentencing in the case.
To many in the accounting world, Carl Bass is a hero. Long before Enron became a worldwide symbol of scandal, Bass told his supervisors at Arthur Andersen LLP that something was amiss with the Houston energy giant.
A judge on Thursday dismissed charges against a third defendant in a problematic Enron-related case marred by overturned convictions and flawed legal theory.
The retrial of a former Merrill Lynch executive whose 2004 Enron-related fraud and conspiracy convictions were overturned was delayed Thursday as a federal judge evaluates claims that prosecutors withheld evidence.
The financial finagling is not as much fun as it should be in "Enron," a flashy yet lumbering docudrama that has arrived on Broadway trailing rave reviews from England, where maybe they take a much keener delight in all-American chicanery.
The May retrial of a former Merrill Lynch executive whose 2004 Enron-related fraud and conspiracy convictions were overturned was delayed by a month Friday by a federal judge, with prosecutors and defense attorneys saying they are close to reaching a plea agreement.
New York's top court says Chase Manhattan Bank wasn't obligated as a trustee for Enron noteholders to make sure information in the energy giant's reports was accurate.
The retrial of a former Merrill Lynch executive whose 2004 Enron-related fraud and conspiracy convictions were overturned has been rescheduled for May, a federal judge ordered Thursday.
An eight-year-old lawsuit by Enron Corp. shareholders and investors who had accused various financial institutions of participating in the accounting fraud that led to the once mighty energy giant's downfall ended Wednesday after the remaining defendants in the case were dismissed.
A former Enron Corp. executive is free of criminal charges related to financial fraud at the one-time energy giant after an appeals court ruled he should be acquitted of all counts he faced.
The former chief executive of Enron Corp.'s failed Internet business was sentenced Monday to 16 months in prison for lying about the capabilities of the once mighty energy giant's broadband network in order to help pump up the company's stock price.
Two former Merrill Lynch & Co. executives whose 2004 Enron-related fraud and conspiracy convictions were overturned are set to be retried next year, a federal judge ordered Friday.
A federal appeals court says the retrial of three former Merrill Lynch & Co. executives connected to an Enron Corp. deal would not violate their constitutional protections against double jeopardy.
Former Enron Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review convictions for his role in the collapse of what was once the nation's seventh-largest company.
A federal judge has set former Enron Chief Executive Jeff Skilling's resentencing hearing for July 30 and created rules for victims of the Enron scandal to voice their opinions before the sentencing.
A former Enron Corp. executive is hoping a little known component of the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause will help him avoid a retrial on charges related to financial fraud at the once mighty energy giant.
Jeffrey Skilling's attorneys filed a new round of appeals Tuesday in their efforts to overturn the former Enron Corp. CEO's convictions for his role in the once-mighty energy giant's collapse.
A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld former Enron Corp. CEO Jeff Skilling's convictions for his role in the energy giant's collapse but threw out his 24-year prison term and ordered that he be resentenced.
Enron Corp. shareholders and investors will split about $7 billion from financial institutions accused of participating in the fraud that caused the once-mighty energy company to collapse.
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