H&R Block Faces Fraud Over Enron Bonds
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H&R Block Inc.'s HRB.N financial  advisers unit misrepresented the risks of $16.4 million in  bonds from Enron Corp ENRNQ.PK before the energy trader sank  into bankruptcy, the NASD said in a civil fraud complaint  seeking restitution for more than 800 investors.
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&gt;Citigroup Inc. was sued by a group of institutional investors who contend the bank defrauded them in selling $2.4 billion of notes linked to the creditworthiness of Enron Corp.
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The U.S. Internal Revenue Service said  on Thursday it may restrict tax preparers such as H&R Block Inc   and Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc  from  offering refund loans to customers because doing so could  encourage fraud.
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GALVESTON -- Galveston County has sued former Enron Corp. finance chief Andrew Fastow, claiming he and his wife Lea owe more than $17,400 in back taxes on a beach home in a posh subdivision.
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Defendants on trial in the first Enron  Corp. criminal case may seek to call former Enron Corp.  ENRNQ.PK financial mastermind Andrew Fastow as a witness to  aid their defense, according to documents submitted by defense  lawyers on Friday.
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Enron Corp. (ENRNQ.PK: Quote, Profile, Research) , desperate to meet profit targets, &quot;parked&quot; unwanted power generating barges at Merrill Lynch in a sham sale designed to
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HOUSTON, Sept. 25 -- Former Enron Corp. finance chief Andrew S. Fastow soon may be headed to prison -- but not without a parting shot at the banks that he says helped the company disguise its financial problems.
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The defendants are accused of helping push through Enron's year-end 1999 sale of interest of barges so the energy company could book a $12 million pretax profit the company needed to meet earnings targets.
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NEW YORK - A federal jury in Houston yesterday convicted four former Merrill Lynch executives and one former Enron executive for a 1999 fraud that helped Enron improve the earnings picture it presented to investors.
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Financial services regulator NASD said on Monday it has charged H&R Block Financial Advisors Inc.  with fraud related to the sale of Enron Corp.  bonds immediately preceding Enron's bankruptcy in 2001.
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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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Citigroup Inc. (C.N) faces a lawsuit from angry investors who allege they were defrauded in a "massive scheme of deception" when they bought securities tied to the credit-worthiness of Enron Corp. (ENRNQ.PK).
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Securities regulators have accused H&amp;R Block Financial Advisors of fraud in selling customers nationwide some $16 million of Enron bonds in late 2001 and touting them as a safe investment when the energy-trading giant had begun to collapse.
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A former assistant treasurer at Enron Corp. (ENRNQ.PK: Quote, Profile, Research) agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud on Tuesday and will cooperate with
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Former Enron Corp. Assistant Treasurer Timothy Despain was charged in Houston federal court Tuesday with conspiracy to commit securities fraud and has agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors investigating the company.
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The automated signature machine did it. Attorneys for Kenneth Lay suggested bank loan documents containing terms he allegedly violated actually were signed by an automatic signature device in the Enron Corp. founder&#039;s office and not by him.
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HOUSTON, Oct. 7 -- The government prepared Thursday to rest its fraud and conspiracy case against four former Merrill Lynch & Co. executives and two former mid-level Enron Corp. executives, following testimony from a key Enron executive that a barge sale was a sham designed to inflate profits.