Top Enron official pleads guilty
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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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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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Former Enron executive Andrew Fastow, who pleaded guilty to fraud, will be sentenced on Tuesday.
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An executive of Bermuda-based insurer ACE Ltd. (ACE.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Friday pleaded guilty to a felony charge connected to New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer&#39;s investigation of insurance companies.
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A former executive from Enron Corp.&#39;s defunct high-speed Internet unit pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of conspiracy related to the scandal-choked company&#39;s collapse.
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A one-time chief of staff to former Rep. Bob Ney pleaded guilty Monday to a federal conspiracy charge stemming from a congressional bribery scandal.
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A former Enron Corp. executive told a  jury on Thursday that he knew the disgraced energy company had  made a bogus deal with investment bank Merrill Lynch in order  to post fraudulent profits.
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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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The last of four former El Paso Corp. natural gas traders charged with making false reports used to calculate the index price of natural gas has pleaded guilty, US Attorney Michael Shelby announced Friday.
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A former executive who was a participant in the wrongdoing that helped cripple Enron testified on Monday, providing the first glimpse through the eyes of a principal of
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Ex-Enron Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling, facing sentencing later this month for his role in the energy trading giant's collapse, paid a fine to a Dallas court for public drunkenness, according a report on Wednesday on the Houston Chronicle Web site.
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Former Enron Corp. chief executives Ken   Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were found guilty on Thursday of lying   about their company's crumbling finances in one of the biggest   U.S. business scandals and could face years in prison.
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Former Refco Chief Executive Phillip Bennett pleaded guilty on Friday to fraud and other charges stemming from the 2005 collapse of the futures and commodities broker.
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EnronÂs former chief financial officer received a sentence that was two years less than the maximum provided in his plea agreement.
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A former senior executive at Refco pleaded guilty on Wednesday to fraud charges for his role in the collapse of the futures and commodities broker.
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Two top executives of the Zurich American Insurance company, a unit of Zurich Financial Services, have pleaded guilty to charges in connection with alleged rigged bids being investigated in New York, a company statement said.
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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.