Merrill Lynch/Enron Execs Convicted
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11/4/04- A Houston jury has convicted 5 men of fraud and conspiracy, while acquitting the only female defendant in the trial of ex-Merrill Lynch and former Enron executives.
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CHICAGO -- A federal jury convicted fallen media tycoon Conrad Black and three of his former executives at Hollinger International Inc. Friday of illegally pocketing money that should have gone to stockholders.
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(InfoWorld) - Two former executives with Gateway Inc., the nation's third-largest PC vendor, are guilty of manipulating earnings and revenues to meet Wall Street expectations, according to a verdict delivered Wednesday by a federal jury in California. The company's former chief financial officer, John J. Todd, and former controller, Robert D. Manza, also concealed important information about Gateway's business success from investors, according to a statement from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California will announce sanctions against the two men at a later date, the SEC said. Gateway did not respond to requests for comment.
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An insurance chief and two of his directors face sentencing after being convicted of defrauding investors.
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Enron's ex-head of investor relations pleads guilty to fraud, pays a penalty of $1.49m and agrees to testify against his ex-bosses.
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A former Merrill Lynch executive pointed to a verbal buyout agreement with Enron Corp. in saying he might support an &quot;unsecured deal&quot; with another company, according to an e-mail presented to jurors in an ongoing conspiracy and fraud trial.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14  â Two of three former Enron traders accused of driving up energy prices during Californiaâs power crisis in 2000 and 2001 were each sentenced on Wednesday in federal court to two years of court-supervised release.
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_ An alleged side deal between Enron Corp. and Merrill Lynch &amp; Co. in 1999 shows how Enron was willing to employ suspect financial practices to meet lofty earnings targets, prosecutors said.
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In today&#39;s fines, Merrill Lynch &amp; Co. was hit with the second largest, at US$1.6 million, followed by American Express Financial Advisors, at $700,000.
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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
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The same jury that convicted five men of helping push through Enron Corp.&#39;s late 1999 sham sale of power barges to Merrill Lynch &amp; Co.
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Former Enron Corp. chiefs Ken Lay and  Jeffrey Skilling were convicted on Thursday for lying to  investors as the energy giant stumbled toward bankruptcy in  2001 in a stunning collapse that shook the country&#039;s faith in  corporate America.
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A U.S. jury found Hafiz Naseem, a former Credit Suisse investment banker,  guilty of insider trading related to a string of corporate takeovers including the $32 billion buyout of TXU Corp.
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Two former executives with Gateway Inc., the nation's third-largest PC vendor, are guilty of manipulating earnings and revenues to meet Wall Street expectations, according to a verdict delivered Wednesday by a federal jury in California.
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The Justice Department obtained a guilty plea Tuesday from a former junior executive at Enron who admitted lying to Wall Street credit-rating firms about the company&#39;s worsening cash flow and debt obligations.
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Several Merrill Lynch &amp; Co. executives knew Enron Corp. pushed hard for the brokerage to buy interest in three barges by the end of 1999 so the energy company could book the profit, a former credit analyst for Merrill Lynch said Thursday.
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WASHINGTON : Four former Merrill Lynch bankers and a former Enron executive were convicted by a Texas jury on criminal charges for carrying out a fraudulent deal that helped the notorious energy trader inflate its earnings.