Guilty Plea in Enron Fraud Case
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Former Enron Corp. assistant treasurer Timothy Despain pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to commit securities fraud and agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors investigating the company.
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A former Enron executive currently serving a prison term testified in the first Enron criminal trial on Wednesday that he worked on a secret deal with Merrill Lynch to fraudulently boost the disgraced energy giant's profits.
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Enron Corp.&#39;s former director of investor relations has agreed to pay $1.49 million to settle fraud charges related to the bankrupt energy company, US securities regulators said on Wednesday.
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Two executives from American International Group Inc.  and one from Marsh & McLennan Cos.  pleaded guilty on Tuesday to fraud charges stemming from New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's sweeping investigation into fraud in the industry.
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A former Enron Corp.   assistant treasurer pleaded guilty on Tuesday in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to commit securities fraud for disguising the company's weak finances before its dramatic collapse.
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Description: A jury in Houston finds four former Merrill Lynch bankers and a former Enron vice president a guilty of conspiracy and fraud.
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NEW YORK, September 22  - A witness in the first Enron criminal trial, and a former executive at the company, testified today that she believed that the Enron executives now on trial were involved in an effort to hide an illicit deal
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A former senior Refco Inc executive pleaded guilty on Wednesday to criminal charges for his role in an alleged fraud that led to the collapse of the futures and commodities broker.
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(InfoWorld) - Kenneth Rice, former CEO of Enron Broadband Services (EBS), has been sentenced to 27 months in prison on securities fraud charges and ordered to turn over about $15 million, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday. The $15 million will go to victims of the fraud at Enron, the Texas energy company that filed for bankruptcy in December 2001 before investigations revealed widespread accounting fraud. Rice and others at EBS, a unit of Enron, made a series of false statements about the products and business performance in order to mislead investors about the success of the company and inflate the price of Enron's stock, the DOJ said in a press release. Rice was sentenced Monday by Judge Vanessa Gilmore at U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in Houston. Rice pleaded guilty in July 2004 to a securities fraud charge and cooperated with the DOJ's investigation into the collapse of Enron. While serving as CEO at EBS, Rice conspired with others to make false statements about the company's development of various software capabilities and its fiber-optic network, the DOJ said. Rice falsely portrayed EBS as a commercial and business success and falsely claimed that network control software developed by EBS was "up and running," when in fact the software had not progressed beyond the internal development stage. These misrepresentations, including a failure to disclose to the investing public that the company stood to sustain operating losses in 2001, contributed to a sharp rise in Enron's stock price, the DOJ said. EBS entered a number of partnerships before Enron's collapse. In July 2000, Blockbuster announced that it struck an exclusive 20-year partnership with EBS to deliver video on demand by early 2001. Blockbuster began testing the service in February 2001. Kevin Hannon, the former COO at EBS, was sentenced by Gilmore earlier this month to two years in prison, and fined $125,000. Hannon pleaded guilty in August 2004 to conspiracy to commit securities fraud and wire fraud. To date, the federal Enron Task Force has brought criminal charges against 36 defendants, including 25 former Enron employees. Eighteen of those defendants have pleaded guilty or been found guilty after trial. The task force has seized more than $100 million in Enron cases.
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William Lerach, a trendsetting lawyer best known for winning more than $7 billion for Enron investors, will plead guilty to a conspiracy charge in one of the U.S. legal industry's highest profile cases, two people familiar with the matter said on Monday.
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The first criminal trial to emerge from Enron Corp.&#39;s spectacular scandal &quot;is a case about cheating and lying&quot; with Wall Street&#39;s help, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
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The former chief executive officer of Enron Broadband Services has been sentenced to 27 months in prison on securities fraud charges, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today.
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A former top Enron official pleaded guilty Wednesday to securities fraud and agreed to cooperate fully with the ongoing criminal investigation of Enron&#39;scollapse.
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Former Enron chief executive Jeffrey K. Skilling today appealed criminal convictions that sent him to prison for more than 24 years, seeking a new trial and citing "profound, inherent weaknesses in the government's case."
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A former senior executive at Marsh &  McLennan Cos. Inc. MMC.N and two executives from American  International Group Inc. AIG.N pleaded guilty to fraud  charges stemming from New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's  sweeping investigation of fraud in the insurance industry.
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Jeffrey K. Skilling, the former Enron chief executive who was found guilty of leading a fraud that destroyed the company, asked a federal appeals court on Friday to overturn his conviction.
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A former Enron Corp.  ENRNQ.PK  assistant treasurer pleaded guilty on Tuesday in U.S. District  Court to conspiracy to commit securities fraud for disguising  the company's weak finances before its dramatic collapse.