Enron Side Deal With Merrill Lynch Was A Sham, Prosecutors Allege
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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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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.
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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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Reuters reported Monday that a former aide to Enron Corp. ex-Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow has implicated his former boss in pushing a bogus deal with Merrill Lynch that boosted Enron&#39;s books.
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Federal prosecutors are investigating  whether the wife of former Enron Corp. ENRNQ.PK Chairman  Kenneth Lay illegally sold shares in the company just before it  went bankrupt, a lawyer for Lay said on Wednesday.
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Enron Corp. former Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow helped cook up a bogus deal with Merrill Lynch to sell and buy back Nigerian power barges to inflate Enron&#39;s earnings
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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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A jury has convicted four former Merrill Lynch (MER) executives and a former midlevel Enron (ENRNQ) finance executive of conspiracy and fraud for helping push
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HOUSTON, Texas - A former Enron accountant testified this week that he knew an arrangement to temporarily sell Merrill Lynch some barges just to boost Enron&#39;s bottom line was wrong and he planned to lie about it if confronted.
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Prosecutors in the first Enron Corp. (ENRNQ.PK: Quote, Profile, Research) criminal trial sought to cast doubt on Wednesday on a former Merrill Lynch (MER.
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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. , desperate to meet profit targets, "parked" unwanted power generating barges at Merrill Lynch in a sham sale designed to be reversed, a prosecutor said on Tuesday in the first criminal trial of former executives at the fallen energy company.
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Federal prosecutors are investigating whether the wife of former Enron Corp.  Chairman Kenneth Lay illegally sold shares in the company just before it went bankrupt, a lawyer for Lay said on Wednesday.
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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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Six former executives of Enron Corp. and Merrill Lynch &amp; Co. on Tuesday were accused by a federal prosecutor of disguising a $7 million loan as a sale of energy-producing barges to &quot;help Enron out of a jam.
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In the weeks before Enron&#39;s December 2001 bankruptcy, H&amp;R Block Financial Advisors fraudulently peddled the energy company&#39;s soon-to-be-worthless bonds to unsuspecting customers, securities regulators alleged Monday.
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October 15, 2004 -- Ex-Enron Corp. chief financial officer Andrew Fastow never promised Merrill Lynch a risk-free purchase of three energy-generating barges in a 1999 call about a sale prosecutors claim was a sham, a witness said.